SMUGGLING SURPRISE: 🐦 U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents find five parrots inside a shoebox at the border. It was an attempt to smuggle them into the U.S. from Mexico.
– U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers working at the Mexico-U.S. border seized five live parrots hidden in a shoe box last Wednesday. The birds were found inside a vehicle at the Paso Del Norte international crossing in downtown El Paso, Texas. When the agents conducted an inspection of the car, they found a closed shoe box in the rear seat. When they opened the box, they saw the parrots.
The seizure is the second time in recent weeks where CBP officers in the El Paso area have encountered live birds. On March 8 in southern New Mexico encountered a man attempting to smuggle two parrots from Mexico to the U.S. The birds in that case were also concealed in a shoe box.
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