American tourists are further banned from entering Canada until September and 'citizen detectives' are on the lookout

Though the current restrictions are set to expire September 21, a majority of Canadians think the travel ban should last even longer, according to a BBC poll published Thursday. It found that 80% of Canadians want their country to ban American travelers until at least the end of the year.

Some Canadians have even turned into "citizen detectives," working to catch Americans who have tried to sneak across the closed border, The New York Times' Karen Schwartz reported. A dual citizen of the United States and Canada, Schwartz was permitted to drive from Colorado to Alberta to visit her father if she submitted to a two-week quarantine upon arrival. Schwartz reported that Canadians now regularly report American visitors to the police and that she received a warning that her car's Colorado plates might make it a target for vandalism.

"Besides the fear of getting sick, the real stress is parking a vehicle with American plates, and hoping that nobody notices them," Schwartz wrote of her trip.