Mexico is poisoning Southern California in a border crisis almost no one knows about

One of the worst biology and nationalist wellness crises successful America is happening close present successful Southern California — and it’s being ignored. If you've lived here, you cognize the truth: we are being poisoned by sewage from different country, and nary 1 is stopping it. 

Over the past 5 years, much than 100 cardinal gallons of earthy sewage, concern discarded and toxic runoff from Tijuana person flooded crossed the borderline into our communities. Let that descend in: 100 cardinal gallons. In 2023 alone, 44 cardinal gallons crossed into the U.S. — the astir ever recorded. 

This sewage isn’t conscionable disgusting — it’s dangerous. It contains E. coli, antibiotic-resistant bacteria, arsenic and different toxic chemicals. Our h2o is contaminated. Our aerial is polluted with aerosolized waste. Residents are reporting everything from tegument infections to viral pharyngitis — and adjacent household pets person gotten sick aft exposure. And immoderate beaches person present been closed for implicit 1,000 consecutive days. That’s astir 3 years of mislaid entree to 1 of the top earthy assets successful America. 

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Our Navy SEALs are grooming conscionable northbound of this toxic flow. Local families can’t bask the ocean. Tourism is taking a hit. And still, the situation continues. 

Border contamination continues to get acold worse, with 100 cardinal gallons of sewage flowing crossed from Mexico. FILE: Sewage-fouled runoff from the Tijuana River has prompted authorities to contented an ocean-pollution informing for respective miles of the shoreline conscionable northbound of the U.S.-Mexico borderline adjacent San Ysidro, California, March 31, 2016. (REUTERS/Mike Blake)

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Millions of payer dollars person been spent. Just similar the homelessness crisis, we’ve seen authorities propulsion wealth astatine the occupation with thing to amusement for it. The contamination keeps coming. The promises support breaking. The enactment keeps failing. 

Let’s beryllium honest: Mexico has failed to hole this, and the United States has failed to clasp them accountable. Across aggregate administrations, we’ve seen anemic oversight, delayed enactment and zero results. That indispensable end. 

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I’m hopeful that with EPA Commissioner Lee Zeldin and a Trump medication consenting to basal up to Mexico, we volition yet get the enactment this situation demands. It’s clip for action. No much delays. No much finger-pointing. Just solutions.  

Hold Mexico accountable. Protect Southern California. Protect our country. 

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