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The U.S. is making more seizures of illegal eggs than fentanyl at its Canadian and Mexican borders (thelogic.co)

submitted 9 months ago by yogthos@lemmy.ml to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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[–] Pherenike@lemmy.ml 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Priorities

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 7 points 9 months ago

priorities indeed:

These statistics reveal that, since October, U.S. CBP officers have made 3,768 seizures of bird and poultry-related products at all U.S. borders, compared to 352 fentanyl seizures in the same period...

[–] catchy_name@feddit.it 4 points 9 months ago

https://archive.is/KUFht

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 months ago

I mean it's gotta be much harder to hide a chicken than a brick of fentanyl.

[–] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago

A guy in Ireland got six years for smuggling garlic: https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/man-jailed-for-six-years-over-16m-garlic-tax-scam/26830346.html