Foreign Traveler Immediately Kicked Out of America After Abusing U.S. Customs and Border Protection Beagle

Kicking a Customs and Border Protection dog is a good way to get yourself kicked out of the country—at least with President Donald Trump in the White House.

This from westernjournal.com.

An Egyptian traveler learned that lesson the hard way this week after a CBP beagle alerted his handlers to the presence of suspected contraband in the man’s baggage at Washington Dulles International Airport. The man was quickly put on a flight back home.

According to a CBP news release:

[T]he situation unfolded Tuesday when the man, identified as 70-year-old Hamed Ramadan Bayoumy Aly Marie, arrived on a flight from Cairo. The CBP beagle, a 5-year-old named Freddie, was sniffing around Marie’s luggage and indicated something was not right.

According to the news release:

As the CBP canine handler started questioning Marie, he violently kicked Freddie with sufficient force to lift the 25-pound beagle off the ground.

Unsurprisingly, things happened quickly after that.

The release stated:

CBP officers immediately descended upon Marie, handcuffed him, and turned him over to Homeland Security Investigations agents for prosecution.

NOTE: The phrasing “immediately descended upon Marie” and “handcuffed him” is definitely a masterpiece of understatement, considering the facts.

A search of the baggage in question turned up plenty of reasons Freddie’s acutely sensitive canine nose became suspicious:

Inside were “55 pounds of beef meat, 44 pounds of rice, 15 pounds of eggplant, cucumbers, and bell peppers, two pounds of corn seeds, and a pound of herbs,” the CBP release states.

The agricultural products—prohibited from entering the U.S.—were seized.

Freddie was examined by a veterinarian, who found the dog had been bruised in his right ribs.

And Marie was left to face the music at lightning speed by criminal justice standards.

He pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia to “harming animals used in law enforcement,” the release states.

Also, according to the release:

He was credited with time served, ordered to pay the vet bills for Freddie, and placed on a flight back to Cairo at 12:30 p.m. Thursday.

All things considered, he got off easy.

Christine Waugh, CBP’s Area Port Director for the Area Port of Washington, D.C., said:

Being caught deliberately smuggling well over one hundred pounds of undeclared and prohibited agriculture products does not give one permission to violently assault a defenseless Customs and Border Protection beagle.

Further:

We rely heavily on our K9 partners and Freddie was just doing his job. Any malicious attack on one of us is an attack on all of us, and CBP will continue to work with our investigating and prosecuting partners to deal swift and severe justice to perpetrators.

Final thoughts: Taken into custody for kicking a CBP working dog on a Tuesday and deported (We the People may presume) the following Thursday—minus his contraband and the veterinarian fees for the dog’s care. The Trump-Vance team truly is moving at the speed of Trump.