Ryan Manucha explains how removing provincial trade barriers delivers easy economic gains for Canada
Ryan Manucha explains how removing provincial trade barriers delivers easy economic gains for Canada
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Kseniia Petrova’s path from a Harvard laboratory to an immigration cell began with frogs.The Russian national who has been working as a researcher at Harvard Medical School failed to declare “non-hazardous” frog embryos she was carrying with her on her return to the U.S. from France in February, Petrova’s attorney said. Rather than issue a fine, Petrova’s exchange visitor visa was revoked, and she was taken into custody.Revoking Petrova’s visa was “a punishment grossly disproportionate to the situation,” her attorney, Greg Romanovsky, said, calling the error on the customs form “inadvertent.”CNN did not receive a response from the Department of Homeland Security to a request for comment, but the department told ABC News, “Messages found on (Petrova’s) phone revealed she planned to smuggle the materials through customs without declaring them.”Petrova now sits in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Louisiana, ICE records show, waiting for a June 9 …

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