EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – The three U.S. House members from New Mexico are calling on the Trump administration to halt plans to dramatically increase beef imports from Argentina.

In a letter to Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollings and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, Democratic U.S. Reps. Teresa Leger Fernandez, Melanie Stansbury and Gabe Vasquez said stepped up beef imports will hurt New Mexico ranchers.

“This plan to flood the market with foreign beef will take money out of the pockets of New Mexico’s ranchers with questionable benefits to consumers,” the lawmakers said in a statement on Tuesday. “Selling out New Mexico’s ranchers is not the way to bring down beef prices at the grocery store.”

Late last month, the Trump administration said it planned to increase beef

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