Ms. Petrova needs to start her Green Card process to become a citizen in the USA. I am reading the articles about her and I don’t see a reference to a particular species of frog.
Medical research can use specially grown lab animals. So, they could be a modified version of the wild species. I think it strange to carry them in a suitcase. Anytime I needed to get an article home I would mail it home rather than taking stuff in an airport.
At any rate, the frogs were probably expensive to purchase. The vendor she purchased from probably told her it would be safe for the frogs to travel in her suitcase without considering customs and regulations. When people have innocent minds they don’t connect to criminal behavior.
She can’t return to Russia. She would never be appreciated for her talent. She would be seen as an enemy of the motherland. I believe her treatment when arriving to Russia would be the same as the journalists whom did nothing wrong except write about Navalny. So, if she wants to remain in the USA she should be given asylum to protect her life.
She might hand you answer for transporting so m e kind of contraband into the USA, but, that should not require deportation.
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