Last week, United Fresh staff and a host of California Congressional offices pressed the U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Inspection Service’ Plant Protection and Quarantine program (USDA-APHIS-PPQ) to implement a suppression program to stop the spread of the Asian Citrus Psyllid (ACP) into California. This pest has been found in Mexico and is the vector for Huanglongbing disease (citrus greening).  United Fresh urged APHIS-PPQ to work cooperatively with the California Department of Food and Agriculture and their counterparts in Mexico to immediately implement a comprehensive plan to deal with this pest on both sides of the border.  The ACP has reportedly been detected by Mexican authorities in Tijuana, Tecate, Mexicali, Calexico and San Luis.  Given the highly destructive nature of the disease that this vector carries, it is urgent that all available resources be brought to bear in order to suppress ACP populations in those areas and halt its northward advance.