Rotting fruit, spoiled vegetables: How Texas just made the supply chain even worse

[Cardinal]

Looks like everybody's produce is about to get more expensive. It's not every day that an American politician can take the blame for being single handled responsible for inflation, but Governor Abbot pulled it off.

This is what Republicans with power looks like.

A weeklong protest by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott against President Biden's recent immigration policy reached a resolution on Friday, but the gridlock it created has resulted in hundreds of millions of lost dollars and delays in shipments of everything from avocados to automobile parts that will have a longer-term impact.

On Friday, Abbott reversed course on an order he put in place last week that required lengthier "enhanced safety inspections" of commercial vehicles entering Texas. The efforts, he said, were to help stop the flow of illegal contraband and human trafficking.

Abbott's move, which Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller criticized as "political theater," ultimately created a logjam of trucks between the US and its largest goods trading partner. Vegetable producers say their produce is spoiling in idling trucks and they are losing hundreds of millions of dollars.

Rotting fruit, spoiled vegetables: How Texas just made the supply chain even worse

A weeklong protest by Texas Governor Greg Abbott has resulted in hundreds of millions of lost dollars and caused delays in shipments of everything from avocados to car parts.

www.cnn.com

 

[Helix]

It's time for the federal government to open the international trade routes by whatever means are necessary.

 

[Crovax]

Are you going to pay attention to the border problem now?

 

[HenryChinaski]

Looks like everybody's produce is about to get more expensive. It's not every day that an American politician can take the blame for being single handled responsible for inflation, but Governor Abbot pulled it off.

This is what Republicans with power looks like.

A weeklong protest by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott against President Biden's recent immigration policy reached a resolution on Friday, but the gridlock it created has resulted in hundreds of millions of lost dollars and delays in shipments of everything from avocados to automobile parts that will have a longer-term impact.

On Friday, Abbott reversed course on an order he put in place last week that required lengthier "enhanced safety inspections" of commercial vehicles entering Texas. The efforts, he said, were to help stop the flow of illegal contraband and human trafficking.

Abbott's move, which Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller criticized as "political theater," ultimately created a logjam of trucks between the US and its largest goods trading partner. Vegetable producers say their produce is spoiling in idling trucks and they are losing hundreds of millions of dollars.

Rotting fruit, spoiled vegetables: How Texas just made the supply chain even worse

A weeklong protest by Texas Governor Greg Abbott has resulted in hundreds of millions of lost dollars and caused delays in shipments of everything from avocados to car parts.

www.cnn.com

MAGA
Make agriculture gross again..

 

[Indlib]

Are you going to pay attention to the border problem now?

You support inflation now?

 

[HenryChinaski]

Are you going to pay attention to the border problem now?

Yeah, there might be a sneaky Mexican hiding in the avocado truck..

 

[OrphanSlug]

Greg Abbott is quickly becoming one of the biggest ****-tards in the Republican Party, which is saying something when considering the likes of Jim Jordan, Tom Cotton, and Marjorie Taylor Greene.

 

[ttwtt78640]

Looks like everybody's produce is about to get more expensive. It's not every day that an American politician can take the blame for being single handled responsible for inflation, but Governor Abbot pulled it off.

This is what Republicans with power looks like.

A weeklong protest by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott against President Biden's recent immigration policy reached a resolution on Friday, but the gridlock it created has resulted in hundreds of millions of lost dollars and delays in shipments of everything from avocados to automobile parts that will have a longer-term impact.

On Friday, Abbott reversed course on an order he put in place last week that required lengthier "enhanced safety inspections" of commercial vehicles entering Texas. The efforts, he said, were to help stop the flow of illegal contraband and human trafficking.

Abbott's move, which Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller criticized as "political theater," ultimately created a logjam of trucks between the US and its largest goods trading partner. Vegetable producers say their produce is spoiling in idling trucks and they are losing hundreds of millions of dollars.

Rotting fruit, spoiled vegetables: How Texas just made the supply chain even worse

A weeklong protest by Texas Governor Greg Abbott has resulted in hundreds of millions of lost dollars and caused delays in shipments of everything from avocados to car parts.

www.cnn.com

OMG! It took about a week (of disrupted truck traffic) for Abbott to get the bordering Mexican states to agree to help reduce the volume of the cartel‘s illegal cross border activity.

 

[bluesmoke]

Smuggling avocados (aguacates) across the southern border will become more lucrative than smuggling people.

 

[Crovax]

Yeah, there might be a sneaky Mexican hiding in the avocado truck..

Creative drug smugglers are hiding cocaine in avocados

Drug smugglers are becoming increasingly creative. This video shows how cocaine was found hidden in a batch of avocados. At first, everything seems normal, until the avocado is cut open. It…

www.freshplaza.com

 

[Crovax]

You support inflation now?

You support drug and human trafficking?

 

[ttwtt78640]

Smuggling avocados (aguacates) across the southern border will become more lucrative than smuggling people.

There is no chance of that happening.

 

[bluesmoke]

Another way to make the national figures worse so that Biden looks bad, which the Rep/cons will scream about to the max while the Dems sip latte and stay quiet.

 

[HenryChinaski]

Creative drug smugglers are hiding cocaine in avocados

Drug smugglers are becoming increasingly creative. This video shows how cocaine was found hidden in a batch of avocados. At first, everything seems normal, until the avocado is cut open. It…

www.freshplaza.com

Awesome. I'll gladly pay 10 bucks for an avocado and see millions of dollars of produce rot as long as they capture a Mexican out of an avocado truck.

 

[Fishking]

Yeah, there might be a sneaky Mexican hiding in the avocado truck..

The irony here is that your snarky comment bumbled into an area the only proves the vast issues surrounding the border, seeing as how drug cartels use avocado profits to fund their operations. So funny to watch liberals flail about in their ignorance.

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[Cardinal]

Are you going to pay attention to the border problem now?

Obviously the people who behave badly are going to rationalize it. Terrorists always say, "Look at what you made me do."

So long as Republicans loudly own the produce inflation, that's fine.

 

[Fishking]

It's time for the federal government to open the international trade routes by whatever means are necessary.

The state should arrest any fed trying to interfere.

 

[Fishking]

Looks like everybody's produce is about to get more expensive. It's not every day that an American politician can take the blame for being single handled responsible for inflation, but Governor Abbot pulled it off.

This is what Republicans with power looks like.

A weeklong protest by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott against President Biden's recent immigration policy reached a resolution on Friday, but the gridlock it created has resulted in hundreds of millions of lost dollars and delays in shipments of everything from avocados to automobile parts that will have a longer-term impact.

On Friday, Abbott reversed course on an order he put in place last week that required lengthier "enhanced safety inspections" of commercial vehicles entering Texas. The efforts, he said, were to help stop the flow of illegal contraband and human trafficking.

Abbott's move, which Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller criticized as "political theater," ultimately created a logjam of trucks between the US and its largest goods trading partner. Vegetable producers say their produce is spoiling in idling trucks and they are losing hundreds of millions of dollars.

Are you on the side of the truckers now? I thought you were against truckers before.

 

[Cardinal]

Are you on the side of the truckers now? I thought you were against truckers before.

Fishking, did you write that post all on your own?

 

[HenryChinaski]

The irony here is that your snarky comment bumbled into an area the only proves the vast issues surrounding the border, seeing as how drug cartels use avocado profits to fund their operations. So funny to watch liberals flail about in their ignorance.

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Well one thing I think we've learned here is that letting millions of dollars of produce spoil isn't a solution. And I would ****ing wager that the majority of the suppliers transporting our food have already been vetted.

 

[Crovax]

Obviously the people who behave badly is going to rationalize it. Terrorists always say, "Look at what you made me do."

So long as Republicans loudly own the produce inflation, that's fine.

That's right your avocado toast is going to cost a lot until you pay attention to a major problem.

 

[Tbird19482]

The irony here is that your snarky comment bumbled into an area the only proves the vast issues surrounding the border, seeing as how drug cartels use avocado profits to fund their operations. So funny to watch liberals flail about in their ignorance.

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Republicans and Conservatives don't eat Avocados?
Have a nice day

 

[ttwtt78640]

Yeah, there might be a sneaky Mexican hiding in the avocado truck..

Or hundreds simply walking across the border between ports of entry and claiming asylum.

 

[Cardinal]

That's right your avocado toast is going to cost a lot until you pay attention to a major problem.

 

[WorldWatcher]

Premise:
1. Texas cannot do drug and illegal alien inspections as that is what the Border Patrol inspects for.
2. Texas use "Enhanced Safety Inspections" specifically to slow border traffic to interrupt the supply train from Mexico as a way to blackmail Mexican government entities to increase interdiction efforts on their side of the boarder.
3. That Texas suspended "Enhanced Safety Inspections" once political agreements were reached in an area that is the Federal governments responsibility.
4. That Texas's actions were clearly not about vehicle safety (which is their purview), but were in fact efforts to intrude in areas not in their purview (cargo inspections and searching for illegal aliens).

Can Mexican suppliers and US users (grocery chains, manufactures, etc.) of those supplies (fruits, vegetables, car parts, appliances, etc.) sue the State of Texas for it's actions and recover damages for spoiled produce and lost revenue for delayed supplies?

WW