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Schumer: Check transit employees against terror watch lists

NEW YORK (AP) — Federal homeland security officials should move faster to require rail and transit agencies across the nation to screen their employees using federal terrorism watch lists, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer said. A report released by the Sept. 11 Commission in 2007 urged federal authorities to check the immigration status of front-line rail employees and run them through the federal government's consolidated terrorist watch list. According to the National Counterterrorism Center, about 1.1 million people, including about 25,000 U.S.

 

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