Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins is on a tear. After announcing on Thursday that the USDA will no longer distribute SNAP benefits to illegal aliens, on Saturday Rollins dropped the hammer on the government of Mexico for their lack of cooperation in combating the New World Screwworm (NWS), a deadly parasite that affects cattle. Rollins wrote a letter to her counterpart in Mexico, Ag Secretary Julio Antonio Berdegué Sacristán, outlining the issue at hand and demanding action be taken to correct it, under threat of stopping Mexico’s cattle, bison, and equine imports into the United States.
The correspondence reads, in part:
We are now at a critical inflection point in our shared campaign against this pest, and I am very concerned about our collaboration. The outbreak in southern Mexico continues to expand, and every day that passes without full…
