ALPA Urges Administration to Dismiss Proposal to Allow Foreign Governments to Pay to Create U.S. Customs Preclearance Facilities in Their Countries
February 19, 2013 - The Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l (ALPA) today voiced its opposition to the inclusion of any authorization for Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to accept third party reimbursement for foreign Customs and Border Protection (CBP) preclearance facilities within the President’s forthcoming Fiscal Year 2014 budget. In a letter to the president, ALPA said that there are growing concerns that the DHS will seek to finance a new preclearance facility at Abu Dhabi International airport by requesting reimbursement from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) government.
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