Does not DC have actual real problems to address (such as our wide open border)?
One quick question: Will Pit Bull Dogs be banned?
That would actually be a public service.
Will someone try to smuggle in a gerbil?
I have a cousin who breeds snakes and operates a reptile pet store. This doesn’t sound good for guys like him.
On the other hand, some folks have a bad habit of introducing invasive species into places like Florida and the Mississippi River, making massive headaches for people. I don’t know if the legislation is a good idea, but I am not sold that this is necessarily the work of a greedy cartel.
I guess the author of the article never researched the effects that importing and selling non-native species as pets-such as Iguanas, Pythons and other snakes has had on the landscape and native wildlife in Florida-people get tired of their exotic pets when they grow bigger, unsafe to handle and are no longer “cute”-so they turn them loose in the wild spaces, where they breed and consume native vegetation and animals. i say stop importing any exotic-type animals for the pet trade from other countries...
Not that it matters with the Washington crowd, but WHY???
Unconstitutional.
“Exotic” pet animal ping
The reasoning for such an act is clear: This lays the groundwork for the forbidding of transportation of ALL animals, in preparation for an American Holodomor.
There is absolutely no pressing problem solved by such legislation. There can be no doubt of the nefarious motives for this sort of thing.
Based on the house and senate bill numbers,
the entire story seems to be B.S.
Rubio did introduce a bill a year ago,
but it never went anywhere.
Instead of smuggling humans the mexican coyotes will start smuggling in fluffy and fido...
If anyone believes this is being done for any good and helpful reasons, you still have learned NOTHING.
If you refuse to learn, you deserve what’s coming.
Sounds like they are trying to get at things like the Snakehead fish.
You will own nothing and be happy.
S’cuse me?
Seriously?
WTH is wrong with these people?
Commies love restrictions and control. This BS has to be struck down. Totally unconstitutional.
This Act may be cited as the “Coffee Plant Health Initiative Amendments Act”. Mr. Kahele (for himself, Mr. Case, Miss González-Colón, Ms. Lee of California, Mr. San Nicolas, Mr. Sablan, and Mrs. Radewagen) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on AgricultureSenate bill S626https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/5421/text?r=41&s=1
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/626?s=1&r=11This bill modifies the injurious wildlife provision of the Lacey Act, which generally prohibits the import and shipment of listed living creatures and their eggs.
First, the bill specifies that the prohibition on shipment applies to interstate shipments within the continental United States.
Second, the bill authorizes the Department of the Interior to issue an emergency designation prohibiting the importation of a species if necessary to address an imminent threat to human beings, to the interests of agriculture, horticulture, forestry, or to wildlife, or to the wildlife resources of the United States.
Third, the bill establishes a presumptive prohibition on the importation of any nonnative species of wild mammal, wild bird, fish (including mollusks and crustacea), amphibian, or reptile, or the eggs of any such species. The presumption may be overcome if Interior determines that the species does not pose a significant risk of invasiveness to the United States.