While Chinese ‘researchers’ are getting arrested for smuggling contraband into the US, like e-coli and crop destroying fungi, people from African countries are being caught trying to bring in equally harmful pests and prohibited ‘food’. But they just claim ignorance, get a fine, and off they go.
“In the passenger’s suitcase O’Hare Agriculture Specialists found 11lbs of beans w/ pests, 17lbs of unknown plants, & 4lbs of nonhuman primate meat,” CBP explained in a statement.
“These items are prohibited, seized, & destroyed.”
CBP frequently intercepts alarming and potentially dangerous “exotic foods” being carried by travelers arriving from Third World countries.
It happens all of the time. In July in Detroit:
“In the first instance, a baggage examination yielded 11 pounds of rodent meat from Togo, a country in West Africa, while another just days later resulted in the discovery of 52 pounds of primate meat, which was declared as antelope, from the Central African nation of Gabon. Both travelers also had additional, undeclared agriculture items in their possession,” CBP stated at the time.
The fine is $300 and they are presumably allowed in, regardless of this egregious and just plain nasty (IMO) smuggling.
Playing dumb doesn’t cut it anymore. They (and their families) should be put on the next plane going outbound to their original point of origin and should be banned from ever getting a traveler’s visa again. Any relatives here should get a visit from fed.gov to see what they planned on doing with that contraband.
Extreme? Maybe. Necessary? IMO, definitely.
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