Greg Abbott's Border Shutdown Backfires Spectacularly

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has effectively shut down the US/Mexico border in his state. He did this in the name of stopping the flow of drugs and migrants into the US, but really it was a theatrical stunt to appeal to the far-right and get on Tucker Carlson's Fox News show. Instead, Texas is looking at empty shelves of produce in the grocery stores and even people in his own party are criticizing him.

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Guest: So Abbott has been having state troopers inspect commercial vehicles that are coming over from Mexico. and I'm sure most people are aware a lot of trade comes over from Mexico on a daily basis. and this has caused huge snags in the supply chain hours upon hours. I think it's important to remember too that while there's the bureaucratic nightmare on the u.s. side of the border. Truckers in Mexico have staged protests to basically say we're going to shut down the border too. and oftentimes that has been sort of overshadowed so we want to shout those people out for using their labor power to to make a point. but you know the far windows, a bridge alone, like 70 million dollars a day of goods are coming across that border. Mexican agencies have been saying around 8 million dollars a day has just been lost in all of this kind of madness. and a significant amount of trucks are now just rerouting around texas. you know they're going to other ports of entry in Arizona. you know and it was almost immediately a disaster politically. Sid Miller who's the agricultural commissioner here came out and he was one of the first people to really hit abbot hard. Sid Miller is a republican but has a very weird relationship with Abbott. Apparently Greg Abbott hasn't returned one of his emails or phone calls or even had a meeting with the agriculture commissioner of Texas in 7 years. and of course when Abbott Abbott's response to sid miller is basically criticizing his policies that Sid Miller doesn't know what's going on. Well, it makes a lot of sense if you're not responding to emails from one of your important republican members of the government. so i mean just to fast forward a little bit so this has been going on. like Beto of course has been showing up at the border and has been making rightfully you know trying to draw awareness to this. but what abbott is now doing is she's trying to save face because this has been so unpopular. and the thing about this too is like if you're in Texas and you might have not experienced this at like the grocery store yet but it's coming and they're saying basically this weekend is when you're going to start seeing empty shelves. you're not going to be able to get fruits and vegetables. Well it's big government getting in the way of free enterprise right?