CBP inspectors on observation on egg smuggling

Nogales, ariz. (Kgun)-while we think of the price for eggs-as we got them at all-inspectors on the US Mexican border chase them as an illegal smuggling.

When inspectors of customs and border protection find things like fentanyl, they are usually in controller -border crossings such as Nogales' Mariposa entrance port, but inspectors find other types of smuggling goods and occasionally -eggs.

Brenda McClure knows what it is like to find great efforts in our sweet lily cakery to find eggs.

“We go through between 120, 280 in a week.”

For them, creating cupcakes requires an endless shop to keep the search for the eggs that hold everything together. The idea of ​​pushing eggs across the border was never on her menu.

“I just couldn't even wrap myself around my head. It was just so crazy that people would do that. “

In Nogales, special CBP inspectors in the Mariposa entrance portfolio inspect foods across the border. They check commercial loads and individual cars that are looking for insects and diseases that could endanger the US food supply.

Carlos Gallardo is CBP boss for agricultural operations at the harbor.

The KGun9 reporter Craig Smith asked him: “Are you in a certain warning for eggs?

He says: “Yes, we are always. We are always looking for forbidden agricultural items such as eggs or bird products. But at the moment we are looking forward to the high concern that deals with bird watching. “

CBP says that in all ports that protect it, it rose by 29 percent compared to the previous year.

In Nogales, the inspectors say that they see three or four people a week who try to bring a few eggs with them.

They are not cartel smugglers who move a new high value smuggling or people who want to hide a few dozen eggs to bring them to family or friends. Usually there are US tourists who do not know the few eggs they still had in a cooler because they could wear bird flu.

If you tell the inspectors that you have the eggs, the eggs are confiscated and destroyed if they couldn't do it, they could be cracked with a fine of $ 300.

While the inspectors are looking for eggs to protect food supply, Brenda McClure is looking for eggs to keep the cupcakes.