BALONEY SMUGGLING
November 1st, 2003
BY PHILIP FINE
UNITED States border authorities on the lookout for a new food smuggling racket from Mexico, after customs officials discovered an operation that involved one light truck and 756 pounds of processed sandwich meat. US Customs and Border Protection officers seized 81 rolls of Mexican baloney on Texas's Paso Del Norte bridge from Juarez, Mexico. Children were sitting on top of the illegal load stacked like a seat and covered with a blanket; the real seat had been removed. It is illegal to carry most fruit and meat into the US from Mexico but there is ...
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