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Schumer Statement On DHS Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative

Date: Sept. 1, 2005
Issues: Immigration


Schumer Statement On DHS Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative

"Requiring passports at the border is unacceptable and will cause huge economic hardship from Buffalo to Plattsburgh and across the Canadian border. The Department of Homeland Security has said they will work to develop an alternative and I will hold their feet the fire so that we have both security and commerce along the border. To make sure they understand the grave implications this proposal has, I am asking Homeland Security officials to meet with leaders from Western and Northern New York so they can hear first-hand how important cross-border commerce is to the upstate New York economy."

http://schumer.senate.gov/SchumerWebsite/pressroom/press_releases/2005/PR41816.Passports.090105.html

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