Not just sewage: Mexico is dumping its trash into the U.S., too

American Thinker ^ | 11/18/25 | Monica Showalter

[SeekAndFind]

So it's not just raw, untreated, Tijuana sewage that's flowing into the U.S., creating the nation's filthiest beaches, it's also raw, untreated trash.

The recent rains in the area have drawn attention to what else is coming in -- and it's not pretty.

According to Border Report:

Landfills in San Diego County have begun receiving some 40 tons of trash and debris from Mexico that a trash boom stopped last month near the border.

Alter Terra, a binational environmental group, set up the boom in the Tijuana River channel, and it only took one hour to collect all that trash.

Initial estimates put the amount at 20 tons, but as trucks started hauling it out, the group later determined that as much as 40 tons of trash was collected during that one-hour rain event.

Landfills north of the border are having to take in the additional trash, compounding a critical shortage of landfill space, according to Oscar Romo, director of Alter Terra.

They've got plenty of back-country land, but instead of put it there, they just ship it north, knowing Gringo will pay to take care of it. And that's why it keeps coming.

Which is pretty ironic: California's governor, Gavin Newsom, has jetted down to Brazil in the past week, to pontificate about saving the rainforest and conserving the Earth, and all that. Back home, his state has become a Mexican dumping ground and he still refuses to declare an emergency on just the sewage matter; he's definitely not done a thing about the garbage rolling in.

[crusty old prospector]

Landfills? We don’t need no stinking landfills!

[SharpRightTurn]

Pump the sewage and throw the trash back over into Mexico. And for some deterrence, pump and throw twice as much across the border as Mexico sent over.

[Bernard]

Your plan will not work unless you provide due process guarantees for all of the trash Mexico is sending.

[NavyShoe]

TJ needs people who will lean into problems and fix them. Like Americans. But all they have is Mexicans, and the work will never get done. So, you know, when people say we need Mexicans to pick our crops I say BS. The Mexican is held up in high esteem. He does the work you won't. Boloney. They can't even process their own frickin trash. To hell with that country.

[House Atreides]

“… Landfills north of the border are having to take in the additional trash, compounding a critical shortage of landfill space, according to Oscar Romo, director of Alter Terra.…”
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Doesn’t Mexico City have some parks and green space that can be turned into landfills to receive this trash?

[R_Kangel]

"Not just sewage: Mexico is dumping its trash into the U.S., too."

...... Well ... That there is a pretty apt description of the illegals comming across our border ....

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[Sam Gamgee]

I’m puzzled by this too. In my small Canadian town on an island, the garbage is packed into containers and then trucked into Washington state. Washington gets a fee for it of course.

Why? I am mind boggled that we just create a land fill. There is tons of room. Yet we go through the trouble of packing it up, taking it over on a ferry, and dumping in WA.

I believe some town in Ontario was doing this as well, dumping garbage in Michigan. Heck, I bet there are many examples.

[shotgun]

[who knows what evil?]

No sh*t...it’s all over East Tennessee...

[Scrambler Bob]

Your plan will not work unless you provide due process guarantees for all of the trash Mexico is sending.
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The Govt. needs to build a giant recycling plant for the Mex trash.

Sort it into many categories, melt it, recycle it, etc.