For her it's life and death, but perhaps you'd prefer to classify it as ridiculous hyperbole as well.
I don't know too many countries who don't deport people who break the laws in that country.
That is how the US had traditionally handled law-breakers who failed to declare biological materials. You did not get arrested or deported unless you did something absolutely egregious, along the lines of smuggling in an endangered tiger and trying to sell it.
I am certain that they threw the book at Kseniya Petrova not because what she did was so terrible, but purely because of her employer, country of birth, and political affiliations. First, she works at Harvard, which Trump wants to humiliate and destroy. Second, she is a Russian who opposes Putin, and Putin is Trump's personal hero.
Was your the salami your grandma had genetically modified?
Did you grandma intentionally try and conceal the salami?
When questioned about food to declare, did your grandma deny she had it?
When busted, did your grandma plead ignorance? If so, did she have text messages on her phone where her friends told her it violates customs laws?
> That is how the US had traditionally handled law-breakers who failed to declare biological materials. You did not get arrested or deported unless you did something absolutely egregious, along the lines of smuggling in an endangered tiger and trying to sell it.
You can't really be trying to say bringing an undeclared food item into the US is the same as intentionally smuggling genetic modified animals into the country?
Typically smuggling good items doesn't have a maximum punishment of 20 years in prison or $250,000 fine.
She's actually quite lucky she didn't get a serious fine or jail term and she was only deported.
> but purely because of her employer, country of birth
Her country of birth? Russia? I thought Trump was a secret agent of Putin's? Would he treat them with kid gloves?
The mainstream media truly is garbage.
> You can't really be trying to say bringing an undeclared food item into the US is the same as intentionally smuggling genetic modified animals into the country?
I am saying precisely that. The reason why certain food items must be declared is that that those food items can contain various invasive microorganism species which have the potential to damage US agriculture and natural ecosystems.
And I am saying that this law was never enforced beyond a token slap on the wrist except in extraordinary egregious cases, which a frozen laboratory frog is not.
>I don't know too many countries who don't deport people who break the laws in that country.
The United States for one, specifically in circumstances like this case.
Nevertheless, people bend over backwards to defend and justify attempts that not only stand to end a brilliant young woman’s career, but may very well put her in undue mortal danger in the process.
I often wonder what those people see when they look in the mirror, if anything.
This is a Nature article, and this is something that has happened in the past 4 months. I know this is the converation I have heard around other academics.