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Given how important commerce generated from travel across the northern border is, I was shocked to see a proposal in the Department of Homeland Security's Fiscal Year 2014 budget request to study whether fees should be assessed on passengers and pedestrians crossing into the United States at land crossings, such as ours in Whatcom County. Such a fee would create a new economic barrier to the flow of visitors and commerce, and would have an immediate negative impact on our local economy. I oppose any new border crossing fees.