News From the Border: House panel hearing on bridge wait times put off

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Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Friday, December 14, 2007

House panel hearing on bridge wait times put off

By Louie Gilot / El Paso Times

Article Launched: 12/14/2007 12:00:00 AM MST

The congressional field hearing on wait times at the international bridges that was to take place Saturday at the Chamizal National Memorial was postponed, said a spokesman for U.S. Rep. Silvestre Reyes, D-Texas.

The hearing, "Ensuring Homeland Security While Facilitating Legitimate Travel: The Challenge at America's Ports of Entry," by the House Committee on Homeland Security, is now to take place Jan. 3.

"They shut it down because they are working through (Friday) night so there would be no time to travel," said Peter Brock, a spokesman for Reyes.

In order to return to the USA, we must wait in line no less than 20 minutes and some times more than an hour!

Labels: Border Life, U.S. - Mexico relations