Posted on 07/31/2021 2:56:38 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
U.S. Customs and Border Protection ordered a Panama-flagged bulk carrier to immediately depart U.S. waters earlier this month after the discovery of invasive insects on board.
CBP says the M/V Pan Jasmine arrived at an anchorage down river from New Orleans on July 17th, arriving from Paradip, India via Vera Cruz, Mexico.
An initial inspection of the vessel raised some red flags after it was discovered that the wood used secure a previous cargo of aluminum, known as “dunnage”, was left scatted on the deck, rather than offloaded in Mexico. This prompted a closer inspection by CBP and USDA personnel who discovered five separate pests, including two species (namely Cerambycidae, a type of beetle, and Myrmicinae, colonizing queen ants) that are known to pose a major agriculture threat to the U.S.
Due to the large volume of dunnage and the presence of the pests, the vessel was ordered to immediately depart U.S. waters, load the dunnage into the cargo hold and clean the decks prior to returning to the U.S. The Pan Jasmine departed on July 21st to Freeport, Bahamas, for dunnage disposal services.
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Well known among Michiganders to have arrived in wood used to pack machine tools shipped from China to customers on the Detroit area.
China is either shamelessly corrupt, or is conducting a slow form of biowarfare against the US of A. Or both.
Both ! They attack us every way they can. Read the book, Unconventional Warfare.
You mean like Them!
What happened was that an ash tree was cut in rural China, trucked to a sawmill, rough sawn, planed, stacked, shipped to the tool factory, re-stacked, held in storage, made into a crate, shipped to a sea port, loaded on a ship, crossed the Pacific Ocean, transited the Panama Canal, traveled up the east coast to the Gulf of St. Lawrence, sailed up the St. Lawrence Seaway to Detroit and was unloaded and trucked to a destination in rural Michigan all before the wood dried out.
Don't you see?
They were just looking for a better life.
Demonrats probably want us to eat them
Excellent B movie. Not much research done, at that time, into massive insect bodies metabolic requirements and structural strength needed to support such an insects weight...but not bad a movie. Update it with dog sized ants and watch the forMication ensue. Yeah forMication.
sink it, before it floats into another us port, or any other port
Walt Disney screened the movie to look at James Arness as a possible Davey Crockett but was so impressed by Parker, he got the role.
Of course, starring in one of the longest running TV shows of all time was a nice consolation prize for Arness.
Invasive intersects bad, illegal criminal disease caring immigrants good. Got it.
It's even worse. Anyone crossing the southern border illegally is a "refugee" and admitted. But, anyone from Cuba who is a real refugee fleeing a communist dictatorship is not qualified to be a "refugee" and will not be allowed to cross by the Coast Guard.
Bidenspeak from the novel 2021.
It’s unbelievable what foreigners try to bring into the USA. Watch a few videos of our port of entries and you’ll be stunned what they bring in.
How about dogs with shag rugs draped over them? The Killer Shrews
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And the border is still open
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