Collins: US Border Crossing Fees Are Now Unlikely Associated Press
go to original July 18, 2013

U.S. border inspection station at the San Diego-Mexico border crossing. (David McNew/Getty Images)

A Senate subcommittee has approved a bill that expressly prohibits funding any study looking at the feasibility or cost of imposing a border crossing fee on people entering the U.S. by land from Canada or Mexico, U.S. Sen. Susan Collins said.

The Senate Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee this week approved the department's fiscal year 2014 funding bill, with language prohibiting the study of a border crossing fee.

Collins, who grew up in northern Maine near the Canadian border, said border community residents routinely go back and forth between countries to work, dine, shop, visit family or attend church.

"Any fee, no matter how small, would have a negative impact on the day-to-day commerce and travel between border communities," Collins said in a statement.

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