PHOENIX — Arizona border officials thwarted an attempt to smuggle 27 protected birds into the United States, authorities announced Monday. The parrots, all native to the Amazon, were discovered on the ...

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NOGALES, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) — Over two dozen protected birds were seized from a car driven by someone attempting to smuggle them across the southern border into Arizona. Earlier this week at the Port of ...