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Border Patrol Saves America From Canadian Trucker Delivering Goods in New Mexico

What kind of country would America be if people were freely allowed to peacefully deliver goods that had been consensually bought and sold?

Eric Boehm | 8.12.2026 12:15 PM

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The list of victimless crimes is unfortunately long and quite ugly—covering everything from arranging flowers without a state-issued permission slip to selling booze at certain times of the day.

Make some room near the top of the list for this one. A Canadian trucker was reportedly arrested by the Border Patrol in New Mexico for "unauthorized domestic freight operations."

Agents in Las Cruces, New Mexico, arrested the driver (who has not been identified publicly) for allegedly hauling cargo in violation of a nonimmigrant visa, Border Patrol Chief Rosario Vasquez wrote in a post on X. Vasquez said the driver faces "prosecution and subsequent deportation."

Truly, a serious crime that demands the federal government's........

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