Whether the Fifth Circuit's strict liability approach to the importation enhancement under the United States Sentencing Guidelines is correct

QUESTION PRESENTED The United States Sentencing Guidelines provide for an enhanced sentence for a person who commits an offense involving the importation of amphetamine’ or methamphetamine. Unlike any of its sister circuits, the Fifth Circuit reads this as a strict liability enhancement, applying it no matter what the defendant knew of his contraband’s origin. Is this Fifth Circuit’s reading correct? 2