US border agents seized hundreds of metal spikes for fighting cocks and veterinary drugs in a vehicle that was inspected at the port of San Ysidro (California), on the border with Mexico.
The Customs and Border Protection (CBP) office reported this Wednesday that last Saturday the seizure of two men traveling in a van and processing their entry into the country with valid travel documents.
However, an inspection of the vehicle revealed a total of 690 metal spikes that are used to arm the roosters in fightsand various veterinary medicines that were hidden in different parts of the truck.
“Cockfighting is illegal in many countries.“Sidney Aki, director of operations for CBP in San Diego, recalled in a statement.
“This is an inhumane practice and CBP works to prevent cruelty to animals and to protect animal welfare,” he added.
The spikes or metal blades are sharp and pointed pieces, about 2.5 to 3 centimeters long, which are attached to the heel of the roosters with ribbons or ties and can cause injuries and even death to the birds put into fight.
Those spikes are illegal in the United States. where the purchase, sale, distribution or transport of sharp instruments for use in animal fights are prohibited.
Controversy over executions at the border
Some videos published on Tuesday by Univision and El País They have aroused great controversy, as they show how Mexican soldiers shoot five people in front of a wall in Nuevo Laredo, in the state of Tamaulipas, on the border with the United States.
The Mexican authorities are already investigating what happened, while the president Andrés Manuel López Obrador acknowledged this Wednesday that the military executed to the five men who appear in the video.
He assured, in his daily press conference, that Those involved are already “under protection” from the authorities.
The material shows 11 Mexican soldiers chasing and later arresting five alleged drug traffickers after his truck crashed into a wall in the border city of Nuevo Laredo.
Stunned criminals are taken from the truck, handcuffed, dragged and placed against the wall behind a supermarket. The soldiers proceeded to shoot in the direction where these men were lying, and then placed some of the high-caliber weapons found in the vehicle next to the drug traffickers.
With information from EFE
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