I look in my refrigerator and I see a couple cheeses from Europe, butter from Ireland (and from the USA), a Belgian beer I still have around, and food from the US. We are, as a nation, completely self sufficient in food production, we turn a bunch of corn into ethanol (very stupid) and export enormous amounts of foodstuffs of all kinds.

There are very few nations, in fact, who could completely close their borders, in and out, and feed themselves. American could do this easily, furthermore, there would be widespread and worldwide starvation if we stopped exporting (no one wants to do this, just making a point).

This is such an odd claim to make.

And how much we get from Mexico

https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2021/november/u-s-fresh...

But we can easily feed our entire population off our own agricultural production, and well.

Google leads me to this link.

https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/ag-and-food-statistic...

This has taught me nothing new. We produce and export positively enormous amounts of food, we also buy a lot of it.

My point remains: that last part is completely optional because this country is food sufficient. If world trade were to shut off, and America could neither export nor import food, many millions of people would starve to death.

But none of them Americans.