Love avocados? Biden admin caving to Mexican cartels could have devastating impact on wildly popular fruit

Avocado in California highlights the warning due to a potential infiltration of crop lesions from all over the border after the Biden administration was subjected to the threats of Mexican Cartel and the end of the food inspection that belongs to Clinton, which now threatens American farmers.

“We understand the importance of free trade,” Ken Milban, Vice President of Industry and Operations at the Avocado Committee in California, told Fox Digital in an interview with Zoom on Tuesday. “Eight to 90 % of the total American demand for avocado is provided by Mexico. However, free trade should not increase the risks to California farmers.”

“Our farmers are working hard to maintain a job, to lead their economic engine, provide their families, and support the economies around them,” he said. “They should not face a scourge, nor a mistake on its own, just because our government in the past was afraid of standing in front of the cartel.”

Milban was interacting with the Biden administration decision in September 2024 to end the American Ministry of Agriculture program called Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service specifically in the context of farm inspection in Mexico to ensure that the avocado that was exported to the United States also did not include the pests that could disrupt American agriculture. The change of policy came after the Mexico criminals assaulted the assault on the inspectors and threatened in recent years.

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Instead, Mexico was accused of ensuring that the across the air -sent avocado was free of harmful pests, such as seeds, stem licatries and seed mites. Suites are small insects that usually contain long hips, and are famous for destroying or destroying crops.

The avocado industry is a bill of dollars in Mexico, but it often vibrates crime and exploiting farmers as carts work to control the supply chain to help finance their operations, and often exploits farmers through strikes that show flat fees on avocado farmers in the field of violence, and various studies that affect crime that affects the crime and Mexican industry.

Sousses are the beetles that belong to Curculionoidea Family Family, known as long lines. (Soumyabrata Roy/Nurphoto via Getty Images)

The Ministry of Agriculture in Mexico confirmed that the animal and plant inspection service program ends in a statement in September 2024, claiming that “with this agreement, the United States Health Safety Agency recognizes the commitment of Mexican farmers, who have not faced any health problems in exports at that time.

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President Biden Administration has been criticized by the avocado industry. (Getty Images)

Former President Bill Clinton created the inspection program to better strengthen American agricultural societies, as the California Committee for Avocado and the Ministry of Agriculture reached an agreement with Mexico in 1997 to allow the export of Avocado Mexican to the United States under the condition of fruit examination. All expenses related to the inspection of the program for orchards and packing houses have been placed at the hands of Mexico, not American taxpayers, according to the committee.

The US Department of Agriculture said at the time that the Biden administration had stopped the program in 2022 after an inspector in Michocan in Mexico received a threat “against him and his family.” According to what was attacked by other employees of the US Department of Agriculture and were temporarily detained by the suspects in the same Mexican state in June 2024, which led to another temporary stoppage before Mexico was finally accused of conducting searches in September 2024.

“We know that without the attendance of the US government, there is a possibility of corruption,” said Melbana that the U.S. Agriculture inspector is currently not currently in Mexico. “You can never appear and pretend that your garden has been adopted and that you take all the necessary measures to preserve pests and free. We also know that fruits have been brought from other modified in the past, and this is part of the problem. This is the place we need in the Ministry of Agriculture on the ground on the ground and make sure that inspection and integration of inspection.

“The entire inspection program is funded by Mexico,” he added. “It is part of their privilege in reaching our market in the United States.”

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Michocan has always been a hotbed of the Cartel’s activity, as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a “not traveling” consultant to the Mexican state because of its high threats to kidnapping and crime, according to The Travel Convisory. Michoacan and Jalisco are the only Mexican countries authorized to export avocados to the United States

The soldiers are patrolling the streets of Agilla, Michocan State, Mexico, on March 11, 2022, after the activity of the violent cartel. (Enrique Castro/AFP via Getty Images)

Some residents and farmers in Michocan also formed different groups of self -defense in the past decade to help protect against Cartel’s violence.

Pueblos Unidos members carry out guard duties in protecting avocado farms, which are tall by the drug gangs dominating the area, in Ario de Rosalis, Michocan State, Mexico, on July 8, 2021. (Getty Images)

“We have all heard the stories and seen reports that the cartel is very prevalent in Michocan, a large -growing area and the first case it has ever allowed to reach the United States, and therefore it is only the occurrence of those involved in a level, and in many cases, they already take advantage of our pure farmers in Mexico. Meliban explained to us.

The US Department of Agriculture told the Fox Digital on Wednesday that the Aphis program continues to examine the fruits that enter the United States on the border and the Comesns are “relieving the risk of plant health in a way that does not contradict the safety and security of our employees or the source security in the United States.”

“The Inspection Service of Animal and Planting at the US Department of Agriculture (Aphis) understands the vital importance of the avocado industry to California and recognizes the concerns raised by the population. Aphis employees continue to fulfill their inspection responsibilities in relation to the fruits that enter the United States from Mexico. A spokesman said.

“Employment levels and budget levels for the inspection program are still the same, and our officials continue to conduct inspections in the packing houses, and they provide a review of the inspection of the garden conducted by the Mexican Plant Health authorities. Aphis is still committed to alleviating the risk of plant health,”

Aphis is scheduled to continue working with avocado farmers and speaking to us, and it will keep them “leaving any future changes on the Mexico program.”

“Aphis realizes that, given the dynamic nature of the avocado industry – including high and low seasons in Mexico and California – time at a time with many of these decisions. We will work to ensure that American producers continue to continue to grow safety.”

Pullet holes of kartel’s violence were seen in a haven in El Auguje community in Aguililla, Michoacan, Mexico. (Getty Images)

Melbana said that California is the best producer of the United States for Avocado, where there are about 3,000 farmers at the state level that generates $ 1.5 billion annually. However, the industry can be shaken if the cattle or other pests are brought to the United States due to a lack of inspection or corrupt fruit inspection.

“We are planting about 50,000 acres, representing about 3,000 farmers,” said Melbana. “This is just up to 17 acres for every farmer. So we are a largely small industry. I think this is important because you look at the family farms that were working in the field of business, this is the second, third and fourth generation for many of them. I heard from them. I entered the pests in the growing areas of production that would escalate our industry.”

In addition, avocado trees take years to maturity, which means that the infection of possible pests may lead to a three to four years waiting period with plants ready to produce fruit already. Although the cost of recovery will decrease nearly 3000 farmers, who will also have to go into the state law about whether they can use pesticides to kill insects.

“We are essentially free of pesticides,” said Melban. But if a lesion is brought in that we do not have any other way to control it, this is what happens, only so that these farmers can fight to save their businesses. Now it is included in the domino effect and the side damage of using additional pesticides in an industry that we do not want to use.

The sasat seen in avocado. (Avocado California Committee)

Five Republican lawmakers in California wrote a letter to the Minister of Agriculture in the Trump Book Rollins administration in March, when the alert appeared on how to end the Biden administration of the program due to the continuous threats of the cartals.

“In late 2024, Aphis, without prior notice, removed all US Ministry of Agriculture inspectors from the Orda for Mexican Avocado Orchars because of the ongoing physical threats to their safety by Mexican Cartels. As a direct result of the threats, publications were canceled from the United States of America, and a Mexican independent review,”.

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Air view of avocado orchards in Mexico. (Getty Images)

“America fell in the face of the Kartel’s threats, and as a result, almost immediately after this change, greater numbers of destructive cattle were discovered in mobilization facilities that demonstrated a collapse in the inspection process and an increase in the possibility of pests infected with regime and crossing to the United States,” the message continued.

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The workers empty avocado trees in Bustan in the municipality of Ario de Rosalis, Michocan, Mexico. (Getty Images)

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“Member of congress Issa has been a real hero for us,” Milan told Fox Digital from the leadership of Issa since Biden’s decision in September. “About 30-35 % of our total production falls within its region and determines its semester. He understands the threat that was put forward here for its components and works hard to cancel this decision.”