The Trump administration has rediscovered the problems with yet another unwelcome export from Mexico: raw sewage.
The Tijuana River has been overwhelmed by the sewage rushing along the international border through San Diego County, ending at Imperial Beach on the U.S. side for years. [emphasis, links added]
Now, in addition to being a festering environmental problem, it’s becoming a national security concern.
Global warming activists claim the problem of untreated raw sewage ruining the Tijuana River is due to climate change, but anyone who’s followed this issue knows it’s been a problem for decades, well before the climate catastrophists began their grift.
Tijuana’s growth in recent years has overwhelmed the city’s archaic sewage system. It’s time for more tweaks to the system, TJ.
Surfers, anglers, and other water enthusiasts have been ordered out of this section of the Pacific Ocean for more than three years.
Where’s @GavinNewsom ?Lifeguards in San Diego are ordering people out of the water on the 4th of July due to sewage contamination from Tijuana, Mexico. Beaches have been closed for over 900 consecutive days! pic.twitter.com/0nCHuRgVgt
— Amy Reichert (@amyforsandiego) July 5, 2024
Trump EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said something must be done now to stop the sewage and save the environment around Imperial Beach.
🚨Mexico has been dumping millions of gallons of raw sewage into the United States for decades.
EPA administrator Lee Zeldin says he’s visiting the area in the coming weeks to demand permanent solutions which Mexico must implement pic.twitter.com/wNcfLCpL77
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 4, 2025
Zeldin said at a presser recently that “Mexico needs to fulfill its part in cleaning up the contamination that they caused — their people caused.” He continued, “They cannot view this as a U.S. problem, just because their contamination reached U.S. soil.”
The water is so contaminated that the Navy SEALs, who usually train next door in Coronado, have had to move some of their training to cleaner waters in north San Diego County.
More than 1,100 SEAL team candidates were overcome with gastrointestinal illness over the past five years, believed to be caused by the pollution. You can read more about that in a special VIP article I wrote nearby.
Since 2017, 130 billion — with a big B — gallons of sewage from Tijuana have flowed into the river into the Pacific Ocean, ruining this recreation area for years.
In the 1980s, San Diego radio listeners heard KFMB host Bill Ballance amuse and scandalize listeners with his oft-repeated observation that the biggest exports from Mexico were “nutty chunk raw sewage and illegal aliens.”
The U.S. Marine veteran and early “shock jock” in Southern California was before his time. He’d be shaken to the core about the SEALs being sickened by the sewage.
In 1980, surfer, outdoorsman, and Imperial Beach Mayor Brian Bilbray hopped on top of a bulldozer and moved enough dirt to redirect a part of the “Tia Juana” River, as it was called then, to save a part of his city from the effects of the raw sewage.
The bulldozer incident made the news. Watch this old story by KFMB-TV reporter Jesse Macias.
Note all of the protesters sitting on the contaminated sands and wading in the water. Yech.
Bilbray said at the time, “I’d rather have a little incident now than a large one when a child gets sick with hepatitis. In the long run, we’ll get the Mexicans’ cooperation. The big thing is getting their attention.”
Oh, did he ever.
Top photo: Warning sign on Imperial Beach about the sewage contamination, with exposure posing a health risk to swimmers and beachgoers. Source: Greg Bulla on Unsplash
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Sewage from Mexico contaminating the waters around San Diego so where is the Eco-Freaks?! noting also that 60% of t he Plastic Waste in the Oceans comes from Asia