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Mexican sewage warfare blocking border enforcement, agent warns
American Thinker ^ | 08/21/2017 | Monica Showalter

Posted on 08/21/2017 8:49:41 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Are the Mexicans using "sewage warfare" against U.S. Border Patrol agents?  A top Border Patrol agent warns that something isn't right out there.

Christopher J. Harris, senior patrol agent at the Border Patrol and a top official with Local 16 of the National Border Patrol Council, told an American Freedom Alliance conference Sunday in Los Angeles that the situation in Imperial Beach, where Mexican raw sewage is being pumped onto San Diego beaches with impunity, is more than just ruined beaches and noxious smells, as the media have reported.  It's a toxic hazard to those who serve in the capacity of border security.

"Agents come to me with chemical burns, with shoelaces and bootlaces that have dissolved. You don't get to that area on border," Harris said, without encountering the toxic sludge.

For Harris, who works with the Border Patrol's union, it's an unacceptable risk for agents whose jobs already are some of the most dangerous in the country.  Referring to the rocks and gunfire border agents regularly encounter as they go up against human traffickers and smuggling cartels, he said: "We are willing to be assaulted, but we not willing to work in a chemical dump," he said.  "It's chemicals in four or five areas, and you can smell it."

He said that thus far, there has been very little official interest in resolving the situation as the Mexicans continue to release the toxic sewage into San Diego.

"It's chemicals. We need help with that and ask the EPA to come forward and do something for that," Harris said, but nothing so far has been forthcoming.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Mexico; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: border; borderinsecurity; bordersecurity; mexico; mexicosewage; sewage
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1 posted on 08/21/2017 8:49:41 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

I got a better idea!
Sniper rifles


2 posted on 08/21/2017 8:52:29 AM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: Keyhopper

With tracer rounds....


3 posted on 08/21/2017 8:53:58 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: SeekAndFind

I wonder if this is the result of the EPA’s chemical spill.


4 posted on 08/21/2017 8:54:11 AM PDT by Ingtar (.)
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s chemical/biological warfare. Destroy the production facilities.


5 posted on 08/21/2017 8:56:19 AM PDT by Ray76 (Republicans are a Democrat party front group.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The EPA doesn’t want to do anything about this.
Back around 1994, the city of San Diego offered to help pay for better sewage treatment in Tijuana to prevent these spills. The Clinton EPA sued to stop San Diego claiming that better sewage treatment would have adverse effects on the bacteria that feed upon the sewage. The suit was dropped but the EPA position should be clear.


6 posted on 08/21/2017 8:56:28 AM PDT by DugwayDuke ("A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest")
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To: Keyhopper

MOAB


7 posted on 08/21/2017 8:56:35 AM PDT by Ray76 (Republicans are a Democrat party front group.)
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To: SeekAndFind

>>Agents come to me with chemical burns, with shoelaces and bootlaces that have dissolved.

That’s not sewage. That’s chemical warfare. Too bad we’re so busy with the War on Statues right now.


8 posted on 08/21/2017 8:58:56 AM PDT by Bryanw92 (If we had some ham, we could have ham and eggs, if we had some eggs.)
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To: DugwayDuke

EPA: Carbon Dioxide is a pollutant but sewerage is not.


9 posted on 08/21/2017 9:02:23 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Hated that about Mexico....sewage floating in the ditches along the highways.


10 posted on 08/21/2017 9:09:07 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: SeekAndFind

When Texans talk about “filthy Mexicans,” it’s a description of the way Mexico has used the Rio Grande as a cesspool for raw sewage for a hundred years. This is like having a ditch mark the border between your yard and your neighbors yard, and he and his large family use the ditch as their open cesspool. They are really lousy neighbors.


11 posted on 08/21/2017 9:10:17 AM PDT by txrefugee (.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The sewage is an act of loooove.


12 posted on 08/21/2017 9:14:47 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: SeekAndFind

Sanitize the affected areas with napalm.


13 posted on 08/21/2017 9:18:04 AM PDT by Rebelbase (Tyranny can hide within decorum.)
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To: Sacajaweau

Raw sewage and burnt meat, the mingled smells that remind me f Mexico.


14 posted on 08/21/2017 9:20:41 AM PDT by PUGACHEV
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To: SeekAndFind

Flush that swamp, flush that swamp!


15 posted on 08/21/2017 9:27:39 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #cishet #MyPresident #MAGA #Winning #covfefe)
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To: DugwayDuke
The Clinton EPA sued to stop San Diego claiming that better sewage treatment would have adverse effects on the bacteria that feed upon the sewage.

You gotta be chitting me.

16 posted on 08/21/2017 9:28:55 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #cishet #MyPresident #MAGA #Winning #covfefe)
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To: DugwayDuke

I lived in that area in the 60/70’s and as I remember that river was always a hazard—full of ah, sewage. The river passes through Tijuana then north across the border and along the border out to the sea. So in the 60’s the US, maybe California, build a sewage plant for them.


17 posted on 08/21/2017 9:39:27 AM PDT by grayeagle (Life isn't about how you survive the storm, it's about how you dance in the rain.)
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To: SeekAndFind; Chode; All

A few Lazer Guided 2000 pounders just South of the offending sewer pump station should stop the discharge and make a big enough hole for the sewage to pool in instead of going to the Beaches in CA.


18 posted on 08/21/2017 9:40:40 AM PDT by mabarker1 (Progress- the opposite of congress)
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And be sure to label it as “Environmental Security Work” not an act of war.


19 posted on 08/21/2017 9:41:58 AM PDT by mabarker1 (Progress- the opposite of congress)
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Right now sewage is pumped from TJ to Point Loma for treatment. If we didn’t do that the problem would be worse. It is pure extortion. A failed narco state literally is crapping on us.


20 posted on 08/21/2017 11:46:37 AM PDT by Oldexpat
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