Regardless of your political affiliations, you might want to seriously consider where you stand on President Trump’s threat to shut own the US–Mexico border, as the consequences won’t just relate to immigration. A border shutdown could quickly cause an avocado shortage — Mexico supplies 44 percent of the imported produce in the US.
According to Steve Barnard, president and chief executive of Mission Produce, the largest distributor and grower of avocados in the world, and as reported by NBC News if imports from Mexico are shut down, Americans would run out of avocados in three weeks — a nightmare scenario for many millennials.
