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Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick: “I represent Michigan, the border city of Detroit, one of the busiest border crossings in our country in northern…”

On the recordNovember 30, 2001
I represent Michigan, the border city of Detroit, one of the busiest border crossings in our country in northern America, and it is very important that we do what we need to do to secure those borders... Since September 11 I have had an opportunity to meet on two occasions with our Coast Guard, our INS, our Customs and our Border Patrol to talk about the needs that they must have over the next several months and years to actually secure those borders... Quite a bit of commerce comes across that Canadian border, as well as other things, both negative and positive. This bill begins to address much of it, and I want to thank the leadership of this committee for allowing that.
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Discussing border security and the importance of a bill related to border crossings.

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