Our southern border seems to stay in the headlines, what with all this wall business and migrants. Then came the next escalation in threats from our president: Donald Trump has threatened to close the southern border if things don't start going his way and soon. Then he backed off. Then he backed on again.
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It's a bit hard to quantify how shutting the border would impact our country in the minds of your average American, but on Monday we got a real and serious threat we could all understand.
Seems the United States imports a significant bit of produce from Mexico. In particular, avocados. And a grower told Fox News that if the border is closed, America would run out of the fruit in three weeks.
Forget the fact that avocado toast would take a serious hit if we run out of this fruit. The real target here is guacamole. Tex-Mex restaurants all across the state would be forced to raise prices and eventually remove the staple from their menus.
Our considered editorial opinion: This is getting serious, y'all.
Editorial on 04/04/2019