An increasing number of U.S. Border Patrol agents at the Imperial Beach station have reported a host of health problems since February, when an estimated 143 million gallons of Mexican sewage spilled into the Tijuana River Valley they patrol.
It's not one of the risks typically associated with policing the border, said Christopher Harris, a union representative for National Border Patrol Council’s Local 1613.
“They’re willing to put up with the normal hazards of law enforcement,” Harris said. “We understand that’s part of our job. We get shot at. We accept all that. We do our best to mitigate it. We wear vests. We have trauma kits. But we can’t mitigate sewage and chemicals.”
Harris has been pressing administrators at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency, a division of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, to take steps to protect his agents from the toxins that regularly pollute the valley.
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5 comments:
and liberals and stupid lawyers in cali want to bring them all over and let them do whatever the hell they want, including shooting women walking on a pier.
Chemical Warfare !!! Mexico attacking USA !!!
Economic war fare is something they will understand and have to react to.
Ewwwwwwwwwwwww!
Wow - seems CA has a bigger/worse problem with "crap" getting dumped directly into waterways. Much like the chicken/cow/et al runoff into our bay areas.
If I had to pick the lesser of 2, chicken/cow poo wins with fingers over our noses! At least we try to prevent what happens here on the eastern shore - CA cannot.
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