{"id":1807932,"date":"2023-01-17T07:34:54","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T12:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1807932"},"modified":"2023-01-17T07:37:47","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T12:37:47","slug":"arizona-farmers-say-illegal-alien-traffic-through-fields-contaminates-crops-and-threatens-food-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arizona-farmers-say-illegal-alien-traffic-through-fields-contaminates-crops-and-threatens-food-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Farmers Say Illegal Alien Traffic Through Fields Contaminates Crops and Threatens Food Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Farizona-farmers-say-illegal-alien-traffic-through-fields-contaminates-crops-and-threatens-food-security%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1807932&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-arizona\">Arizona<\/a> farmers are warning that illegal alien traffic through farmland is contaminating crops and threatening the nation\u2019s food security.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The border crisis is putting the nation\u2019s food security in danger, two Arizona farmers with fields near the southern border<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/migrants-exploiting-border-wall-gaps-contaminate-crops-threaten-nations-food-security-arizona-farmers-say\">\u00a0told Fox News in an exclusive.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Arizonans had been promised earlier this month by President Joe Biden that he would enforce stricter immigration laws in the lead up to his recent visit at the U.S.-Mexico Border. He did so after ordering Doug Ducey, the former governor of Arizona, to remove a wall that was built by state authorities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">\u201cThere\u2019s obviously a food safety concern, because our fields are monitored and audited and tested for different pathogens,\u201d\u00a0Fox News spoke with Alex Muller from the Pasquinelli Produce Company.<\/p>\n<p>Muller\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>Ducey\u00a0ordered the construction of the temporary container wall\u00a0last August to plug the holes in the unfinished wall, but then\u00a0agreed to remove it in\u00a0January as a result of a federal lawsuit brought by the White House.<\/p>\n<p>According to the settlement reached with the administration, Arizonan authorities will need to collaborate with U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials (CBP) in order to protect their residents and property.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">\u201cIf there\u2019s somebody that walks into our field and then we don\u2019t know about why we put up flags and kind of mark it out and we don\u2019t harvest that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat hits the bottom line,\u201d Muller.\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s not sustainable. It\u2019s not good for the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<h2>Yuma Hole <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-border-wall\">Border Wall<\/a> Is at the Center of Arizona\u2019s Border Crisis<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Yuma, Arizona, is the largest agricultural producer of leafy green vegetables in the country during the winter, and\u00a0provides about 90 percent of the nation\u2019s supply of romaine and iceberg lettuce, according to the Department of Agriculture.<\/p>\n<p>The region produces approximately nine billion lettuce servings annually. However, local farmers are concerned that they will lose their crops as Washington allows illegals to continue to trample on their produce through gaps in its unfinished border wall.<\/p>\n<p>According to CBP, Yuma migrant crossings rose by 171 percent between 2021-2022. This forced many farmers to employ private security armed with guns. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/private-border-security-yuma-families-forced-hire-armed-guards-amid-migrant-surge-local-official-says\">reported Fox News.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fox News also\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/border-officials-count-599000-gotaway-migrants-fiscal-year-2022-source\">reported<\/a> Federal officials have recorded that over four million illegal aliens tried to cross the southern border in the past year.<\/p>\n<p>Around one million <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-illegal-aliens\">illegal aliens<\/a> have crossed Arizona\u2019s southern border in the past year, with another nearly 600,000 evading the U.S. Border Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>Crossings of the border could be dangerous \u201ceasily\u201d approach 12 million during by the end of Biden\u2019s first term, American Enterprise Institute scholar Mark Perry\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycallernewsfoundation.org\/2022\/12\/26\/heres-how-many-migrants-have-crossed-the-southern-border-under-biden-that-we-know-of\/\">told the Daily Caller News Foundation in December.<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Arizona Agriculture Gets a Flood of Illegals Trampling on Crops<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve gotten a fair amount of traffic through and around our fields and through the whole entire Yuma Valley,\u201d Fox News interviewed Hank Auza, an agricultural worker from the area.\u00a0He said that his properties covered several thousand acres, with fields close to Morelos Dam. This is where the wall has major gaps.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere the gaps are opens up to more farm ground for them to walk across,\u201d Auza: \u201cwe spend hundreds of thousands of dollars just on our farm for food safety.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Auza stated that a neighboring farmer lost almost $100,000 in crops when a few migrants hid on his land for a week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow you start failing food safety audits, and there is no insurance in the produce business \u2026 so you eat that,\u201d Auza was added.<\/p>\n<p>His neighbor said that he couldn&#8217;t harvest the affected crops because they could be contaminated by illegal aliens. This could result in foodborne disease.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the largest humanitarian disaster we\u2019ve had in this country,\u201d Auza stated that \u201cand part of the country is happy that it\u2019s happening. I don\u2019t get why.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yuma\u2019s agricultural production is vital to this country, Muller told Fox News.\u00a0\u201cThis is produce that we\u2019re growing for the whole country, and it should be protected,\u201d Muller.<\/p>\n<p>He appealed for the Biden administration&#8217;s help to close the gap in the border wall, and enforce stricter immigration policies.<\/p>\n<p>The CBP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/newsroom\/local-media-release\/construction-morelos-dam-scheduled-begin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">announced on Jan. 6<\/a>\u00a0That it would finish construction on the Yuma border wall to close the holes this month.<\/p>\n<div class=\"author_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-bryan-jung\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/ttl7daySGw_WEB_BrianJung.jpg\" alt=\"Bryan Jung\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>Bryan S. Jung is a New York City resident and native. He has a background both in politics and in the legal sector. He graduated from Binghamton University.\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<button class=\"share\">SHARE<\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arizona farmers are warning that illegal alien traffic through farmland is contaminating crops and threatening the nation\u2019s food security. The border crisis is putting the nation\u2019s food security in danger, two Arizona farmers with fields near the southern border\u00a0told Fox News in an exclusive. 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