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Snowshadow 🇨🇦

🤔 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

thelogic.co/news/canada-us-tra

The Logic · The U.S. is making more seizures of illegal eggs than fentanyl at its Canadian and Mexican borders - The LogicSince October, U.S. customs officers have made 3,768 seizures of bird and poultry-related products, including eggs, compared to 352 fentanyl seizures.

@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?

@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.

@Snowshadow

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.