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Houston taxi drivers: constitutional right to airport fares
A few hundred local taxi drivers descended on City Hall today, protesting security requirements at Houston's airports that they say threaten their business. At issue is a recent requirement that drivers picking up passengers at Bush Intercontinental and Hobby airports have new photo identification badges."It violates the constitutional rights of the cab drivers in that in enacts a very, very strenuous background check," said Deric Muhammad of the local Ministry of Justice for the Million More Movement, a group helping represent the drivers. "Many of them are being put out of business and not being allowed to work at the airport system for something they may have done in the past." Airport officials say everyone else doing business in their facilities is required to wear a badge and undergo criminal background checks. Posted by: trailing wife 2007-05-09 |
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