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

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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.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signs a border security agreement with Chihuahua Gov. Maru Campos Galvan in Austin, Texas on Thursday.


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

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signs a border security agreement with Chihuahua Gov. Maru Campos Galvan in Austin, Texas on Thursday.


MAGA
Make agriculture gross again..
 
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.
 
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.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signs a border security agreement with Chihuahua Gov. Maru Campos Galvan in Austin, Texas on Thursday.




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