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Beginning to think it wasn't about the fentanyl. /s
The U.S. is making more seizures of illegal eggs than fentanyl at its Canadian and Mexican borders
Since October, U.S. customs officers have made 3,768 seizures of bird and poultry-related products, including eggs, compared to 352 fentanyl seizures
Blue. Zelensky. @Snowshadow Wait, what? But they just asked Denmark for eggs. I’m so confused. Guess they are to.
@mutter01 Maybe not enough are being smuggled into the US?
I agree, it is very confusing
@Snowshadow That's just seizures. But how many eggs and how much fentanyl are they willingly letting through without seizing it, to cover the demand?
#FBPE @Snowshadow What's illegal in the US about Canadian eggs? (I did try to find an explanation in the article but failed, though I didn't read every single word.)
@TimWardCam they were not declared, they were smuggled.
@Snowshadow What, in an attempt to avoid paying import tariffs on them?
(Before #brexshit I was used to the idea that you could take whatever food you liked across borders. Until I visited Oz, that is, and discovered roadblocks that confiscated food that you tried to take from one part of Queensland to another.)
@TimWardCam Yes, butter, eggs, maple syrup, whatever will turn a profit.
They been doing the egg confiscation for a while. My daughter is a college student in Vermont. Last year she brought one carton of a dozen eggs with her back from a road trip to Montreal and a US border guard in New York made a huge deal about the eggs and confiscated them.