Posted on 08/09/2023 10:37:46 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Texas border patrol agents rescued seven endangered baby spider monkeys that were smuggled inside a backpack over the southern border.
Video from an arrest in Brownsville on Thursday shows officials opening the bag and finding the monkeys huddled together.
“Aw, poor babies,” one of the agents says.
The monkeys were seized from a juvenile offender, who stuffed the simians inside a backpack that had holes poked in it to allow them to breathe, officials said.
“This case highlights the lengths smugglers will go to maximize profits with no regard for the lives of migrants or animals,” said Gloria Chavez, the chief patrol agent for the Rio Grande Valley secto
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Did anyone check to make sure they were actually monkeys?
....nope, not gonna say it. It wouldn’t be prudent.
Back when I lived in El Paso it was a thing to smuggle exotic pets across the border from Juarez..
In the Old Marketplace you would find stalls selling Bobcats, Skunks, exotic snakes, monkeys, Parrots..etc
There was an old joke about smuggling a skunk(de-scented) across the border.
Man and wife in car with taped up skunk..
MAN: Just stick it under your skirt, between your legs until we get pass the checkpoint.
WIFE: But what about the horrible stench!
MAN: I’m sure that skunk can stand it for a few minutes...
lol
... Ricky Bobby ref.
Tens of millions have entered from God knows where over the past few decades, creating a massive national security nightmare, but they caught a backpack full of monkeys.
Try to imagine what is really being brought into this country from the waves of criminals entering illegally, who are never caught, stopped or apprehended.
Amateurs. Everyone knows you’re supposed to smuggle monkeys in barrels, not in bags.
I bet they processed them for asylum and released them.
They came to America to see their daddy Obama
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