In the video, originally posted to social media and an independent Tijuana news site, a vendor reaches through an opening of the border barrier wall and hands the agent tamales, according to Border Report.
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I really fail to see the problem here if the Border Patrol agent and Primo both stayed on their respective sides. I like good pork tamales myself.
Lingua con ajo (shredded braised tongue with garlic).
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Colloquially you're correct... however those 2 individuals completed intra-national commerce AND the cop is guilty of importing food into this country without declaration.
ReplyDeleteI agree, its just a couple tamales... but b/c of an imaginary line in the dirt, that cop broke about 3-4 laws in this country.
So... Undocumented tamales... Can I order some?
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There is no problem here. A guy's gotta eat, and the Amigo might just stay on his side of the wall if he can support his familia by selling eats to whoever he can, Gringos and CBP agents included.
ReplyDeleteMust have been a slow news day for the Fox folks, now that they've declared the Alzheimers patient and the slut from San Francisco to be our new leaders.
No harm done.
ReplyDeleteI think my tamale lady got deported. Haven't seen her in a while. At least I still have a few dozen in the freezer.
I would say no harm done, except for the fact that the CBP guy broke several laws that he actively enforces on everyone else. If it was just a citizen, I'd say no harm no foul. But if he has ever arrested anyone, or testified against someone for a crime that could be laid against him for this, put him in jail.
ReplyDeleteTLDR - cops must be made to uphold the law they enforce on the rest of us.
Mr. (assuming) ANON: Yes, I am certain the CPB officer has arrested dozens of US-side buyers of Mexican-produced tamales, said transactions conducted at the same fence. Pathetic.
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DeleteNothing better than original homemade tamales. My supplier has not been seen in the lot in awhile. Probably the covid. At a buck a piece they were damn good and you could get beef or pork. Bought em by the dozens.
ReplyDeleteJeez, a buck a tamal? That's robbery. All the stuff that goes into tamales is bought with food stamps, except the labor. And a mama and three daughters can make 100 dozen in a weekend. A dozen shouldn't cost more than $6 if you know where to buy them.
DeleteThey were 4-5 times the size of a taquito. 2 would fill me up but still ate 4
DeleteIllegally importing stuff. Even stuff that would be legal to bring through an 'official' checkpoint would be illegal to bring in otherwise.
ReplyDeleteOh, and the fact that all the rest of us would have been arrested by that guy for doing the same thing. I got arrested and spent 4 hours in the pokey because I had a handful of .22LR under the back seat coming back into the US. Its legal here, not illegal to bring in, but I got hit with a $500 fine for 'failure to declare' something I didn't even know was there.
Yeah, no harm done - except to the idea that cops don't break the laws they are supposed to enforce - but I'd like to be able to buy tamales from a vendor through the fence near my house instead of having to endure a two-hour wait coming back in.
Could there have been any contraband inside of those “homemade tamales“ ?
ReplyDelete"it is unclear what laws the agent might have violated"
ReplyDeleteAnyone want to wager it'll come down to taxes?
Now you're thinking. Getting into the government's pocket is the worst crime you can be guilty of. I saw today that California is going to allow strip clubs to open even as they continue to persecute churches. While animus towards Christians is part of it (obviously, they are frightened of Muslims), opening the whorehouses flows tax and graft money into dotgov coffers and the burgermiester's pockets. Churches are a tax liability which is a bigger issue to the elites than the easily ignored biblical moral precepts.
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I'm guilty of doing this about once a week. The tamales from Tijuana were pretty good.
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