Arizona farmers are warning that illegal alien traffic through farmland is contaminating crops and threatening the nation’s food security.
The border crisis is putting the nation’s food security in danger, two Arizona farmers with fields near the southern border told Fox News in an exclusive.
President Joe Biden promised Arizona residents earlier this month that he would uphold stricter immigration policies ahead of his visit to the U.S.-Mexico border recently, after ordering the former governor, Doug Ducey, to demolish a wall built by state authorities.“There’s obviously a food safety concern, because our fields are monitored and audited and tested for different pathogens,” Alex Muller, president of the Pasquinelli Produce Company, told Fox News.
Muller’s farmland is right on the U.S.-Mexico border, and he has complained that the unfinished border wall begun under former President Donald Trump and canceled under Biden in 2021 has allowed a migrant influx that jeopardizes food safety.Ducey ordered the construction of the temporary container wall last August to plug the holes in the unfinished wall, but then agreed to remove it in January as a result of a federal lawsuit brought by the White House.
