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DHS questioned on emergency personnel delayed at border

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Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Subcommittee on Border, Maritime, and Global Counterterrorism Chairwoman Loretta Sanchez (D-CA), and Subcommittee on Emergency Communications, Preparedness, and Response Chairman Henry Cuellar (D-TX) sent a letter to Michael Chertoff, secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, regarding an incident at the Canadian border when an ambulance was delayed and stopped at the border for secondary inspection. A link to the letter is below.

http://homeland.house.gov/SiteDocuments/20071120111445-67508.pdf

November 20, 2007

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