Border agents are seeing more people trying to bring raw eggs across the border from Mexico because of their high cost in California.
With egg prices spiking in California, Border Patrol agents have noticed a rise in the number of people trying to bring eggs across the border from Mexico, which is illegal.
At the San Diego field office, border agents seized eggs and poultry products during 1,512 inspections between Oct. 1 and Dec. 31, an increase of 384% when compared to the previous year, according to numbers provided by the agency.At the Tucson field office in Arizona, agents seized eggs and poultry items 701 times during the same time period, a jump of 300% from the previous year.that agents there had seen an increase of 108% in the number of eggs seized from Oct. 1 to Dec. 31.
Instead, many of the incidents involve border crossers who declare the eggs at the inspection stations and expect to bring them into the United States. It’s there that they are told the items aren’t allowed and must be turned over.
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