It’s happening again. Just when you thought Washington couldn’t sink any lower in its refusal to defend American soil, Mexico is preparing to dump a staggering 400 million gallons of raw sewage—yes, sewage—into the Tijuana River, which flows straight into the United States. And once again, the American people will be left holding the bag for Mexico’s failure to maintain basic sanitation infrastructure.
According to San Diego County Supervisor Jim Desmond, this isn’t just a one-off environmental disaster—it’s a recurring insult. Instead of routing sewage to a treatment facility, Mexico has decided that flushing it straight into the riverbed that feeds into Southern California is easier. Translation: let the gringos deal with it.
This is not a new problem. The Tijuana River has been a toxic pipeline of pollution flowing into the U.S. for decades. Entire beaches in San Diego have been shut down. Families are told to stay out of the water. Children are getting sick. Even Navy SEALs training in the area have been exposed to these dangerous conditions. And yet, here we are again—400 million gallons this time, with no real consequences for the Mexican government.
Where’s the outrage from the so-called “climate champions” in the White House? Where are the eco-warriors who scream bloody murder over plastic straws and cow flatulence? Nowhere to be found. Because when it comes to real, tangible threats to America’s environment and public health—especially if it involves confronting a foreign nation—the left turns a blind eye.
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin says he’s heading to the border to address this “disgusting Mexican sewage,” but unless he brings with him a hardline strategy and a backbone, his visit will be about as effective as a paper towel in a flood. As Supervisor Desmond rightly put it, “There needs to be some type of repercussions for those actions. Unfortunately, their lack of an adequate sewage system is our problem. It’s not their problem.”
That’s exactly the issue. Mexico has no incentive to fix this because we’ve never held them accountable. Instead of leveraging our immense economic and diplomatic power, we act like passive neighbors at the mercy of a bad roommate who keeps using our front lawn as a toilet.
It’s time for real consequences. The Trump administration is already re-evaluating key diplomatic tools—visas, border access, trade privileges. If beaches in San Diego are closed, if Navy SEALs are training in toxic filth, if American children are falling ill, then Mexico doesn’t get a free pass. Maybe it’s time to shut down cross-border traffic. Maybe it’s time to suspend foreign aid. Maybe it’s time to let tariffs speak louder than toothless diplomatic statements.
We’ve seen this movie before: a foreign country screws up, America pays for it, and the D.C. swamp shrugs. But President Trump was elected to put America First, and it’s time to apply that principle to our border—north, south, and everything in between. If our beaches, our servicemembers, and our families are under threat from foreign pollution, then it’s time to act like a sovereign nation with standards.
This is not about climate change theory or global cooperation. This is about a foreign government openly dumping human waste into American waterways—and expecting us to say “thank you” for the privilege. It’s environmental blackmail, and it’s time we end it once and for all.
We’re not Mexico’s dumping ground. Not under Trump. Not ever again.
