By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
Sewage seeping out of Mexico and into South California caused festering rashes on Border Patrol agents, who were sent to the hospital for treatment.
The Washington Times reports that the ongoing spill has hampered efforts to stop illegal immigration and drugs from coming across the border in that area.
Mexican officials said the latest contamination came after they were forced to shut down a pump station after a reported suicide attempt, causing sewage to flow in the Tijuana River. More than 300,000 gallons of wastewater was leeched into the U.S.
Just hours later, another 3,800 gallons of wastewater seeped into the water.
“As crude and nasty as this sounds, this is not American sewage, this is Third World sewage,” said Christopher Harris, a Border Patrol agent and director of legislative and political affairs for Local 1613, the union for agents in the sector.
“There’s whole areas now that are biologically and chemically impacted, just like if you had a biological or chemical attack. There are areas that are no-go zones,” he said.
