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On the recordMay 16, 2011
Could you support the creation of a pre-clearance facility at a train station, say, in Montreal, very similar to the kind of pre-clearance facilities that you have in a lot of our foreign airports?
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Patrick Leahy
Democratic · Vermont

Editor's note · Context

Leahy proposes a pre-clearance facility to improve border crossing efficiency.

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