• Mothra@mander.xyz
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    23 hours ago

    Brutal, the title makes it sound like she was making a profit or something but she just didn’t know to declare her research and that’s considered smuggling wtf

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      23 hours ago

      An immigrant and a Harvard professor?

      This is probably being gleefully followed by Trump personally.

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        23 hours ago

        A Russian who has opposed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Trump’s probably on the phone to Putin promising her delivery right now. It’s one less academic in the USA too - from MAGA’s perspective everybody wins!

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      23 hours ago

      They’re definitely throwing the whole book at her. But there’s also a small nugget of a case here. Having been through customs a few times, I think it’s clear that biological materials should be declared. In a normal situation, the infraction would lead to a long wait in the back room, a stern warning, and maybe confiscated embryos. Not felony charges.

    • cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      23 hours ago

      Yeah it is not clear who or what is profiting from that smuggling. It seems more an administrative issue than a case to me.