Arizona farmers with fields along the U.S.-Mexico border raised concerns on food safety after shipping containers plugging gaps in the border wall were removed.
The border crisis is jeopardizing the nation’s food security as migrants trespass through farmland, contaminating crops, two Arizona farmers with fields near the southern border told Fox News.
"There's obviously a food safety concern because our fields are monitored and audited and tested for different pathogens," Pasquinelli Produce Company President Alex Muller told Fox News."If there's somebody that walks into our field and then we don't know about why we put up flags and kind of mark it out and we don’t harvest that." WATCH MORE FOX NEWS DIGITAL ORIGINALS HEREAlex Muller, whose farmland lines up against the U.S.
Yuma — the country's agricultural leader in leafy green production during the winter months — provides about 90% of the nation’s supply of romaine and iceberg lettuce, according to the Department of Agriculture. It supplies around 9 billion servings of leafy greens per year, but farmers fear they will lose crops as more migrants pass through the border wall's gaps and into their fields.
‘IT’S A LITTLE LATE': BORDER RESIDENTS RESPOND TO BIDEN'S FIRST-EVER BORDER TRIP, PLEDGE TO STIFFEN POLICIES "We've gotten a fair amount of traffic through and around our fields and through the whole entire Yuma Valley," a fifth-generation farmer, Hank Auza, said. His properties cover several thousand acres with fields near Morelos Dam, where gaps in the border wall remain.
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