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port of entry

port of entry

noun

  1. law an airport, harbour, etc, where customs officials are stationed to supervise the entry into and exit from a country of persons and merchandise
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of port of entry1

First recorded in 1830–40
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Those levies went into effect March 4 — the day Zaidi’s pallet of 1,000 bottles arrived at the port of entry in Laredo, Texas.

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“I would continue to send some drugs through ports of entry, some even with migrants in backpacks across the desert, even though I know they'll get caught,” Tree explained.

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In the last month, at least three tourists — two from Germany and one from the United Kingdom — were stopped at a U.S. port of entry and detained for at least two weeks.

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News outlets reported that the Border Patrol recorded around 8,300 arrests of migrants who attempted to unlawfully cross the U.S.-Mexico border between ports of entry.

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There was a 29% increase in eggs being confiscated at ports of entry between October 2024 and February compared with the same time period last year, according to U.S.

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