Was your the salami your grandma had genetically modified?
Did you grandma intentionally try and conceal the salami?
When questioned about food to declare, did your grandma deny she had it?
When busted, did your grandma plead ignorance? If so, did she have text messages on her phone where her friends told her it violates customs laws?
> That is how the US had traditionally handled law-breakers who failed to declare biological materials. You did not get arrested or deported unless you did something absolutely egregious, along the lines of smuggling in an endangered tiger and trying to sell it.
You can't really be trying to say bringing an undeclared food item into the US is the same as intentionally smuggling genetic modified animals into the country?
Typically smuggling good items doesn't have a maximum punishment of 20 years in prison or $250,000 fine.
She's actually quite lucky she didn't get a serious fine or jail term and she was only deported.
> but purely because of her employer, country of birth
Her country of birth? Russia? I thought Trump was a secret agent of Putin's? Would he treat them with kid gloves?
She was on a tourist visa. I do not know whether the sausage was genetically modified - the customs agent confiscated it, so I did not get to meet it. Yes, she deliberately tried to conceal the sausage and lied that she had nothing to declare.
> You can't really be trying to say bringing an undeclared food item into the US is the same as intentionally smuggling genetic modified animals into the country?
I am saying precisely that. The reason why certain food items must be declared is that that those food items can contain various invasive microorganism species which have the potential to damage US agriculture and natural ecosystems.
And I am saying that this law was never enforced beyond a token slap on the wrist except in extraordinary egregious cases, which a frozen laboratory frog is not.
She's a Russian who opposes Putin during wartime. A fine and jail time would have been preferable to the probable death awaiting her if she is deported.
Was your the salami your grandma had genetically modified?
Did you grandma intentionally try and conceal the salami?
When questioned about food to declare, did your grandma deny she had it?
When busted, did your grandma plead ignorance? If so, did she have text messages on her phone where her friends told her it violates customs laws?
> That is how the US had traditionally handled law-breakers who failed to declare biological materials. You did not get arrested or deported unless you did something absolutely egregious, along the lines of smuggling in an endangered tiger and trying to sell it.
You can't really be trying to say bringing an undeclared food item into the US is the same as intentionally smuggling genetic modified animals into the country?
Typically smuggling good items doesn't have a maximum punishment of 20 years in prison or $250,000 fine.
She's actually quite lucky she didn't get a serious fine or jail term and she was only deported.
> but purely because of her employer, country of birth
Her country of birth? Russia? I thought Trump was a secret agent of Putin's? Would he treat them with kid gloves?