My Dad used to tell the story about how he and several of his siblings used to smuggle turkey’s across the border during the depression,using their sister’s house in St Albans,VT,which is 30 minutes south of the border,as “headquarters”.They weren’t involved in the *really* serious stuff (like the Kennedys with booze).No drugs,or wads of cash or anything like that.After the Depression was over they all became respectable...they were forced into doing it to get by.They’re all deceased now so nobody can be prosecuted.
Smuggled Canadian turkeys? There was probably a bigger fine than smuggled Mexicans...unless the turkeys voted Democrat.