Thread: Border Agents To Dump Agent Orange Like Chemical

I saw this on http://www.Fark.com

Having learned their lessons from Vietnam, U.S. border patrol plans to use agent orange like chemical to kill all the plants along the Rio-Grande tomorrow. What could possibly go wrong?


Border Agents To Dump Agent Orange Like Chemical To Kill All Plant Life Along The U.S. Mexico Border


The U.S. Border Patrol plans to poison the plant life along a 1.1-mile stretch of the Rio Grande riverbank as soon as Wednesday to get rid of the hiding places used by smugglers, robbers and illegal immigrants.

If successful, the $2.1 million pilot project could later be duplicated along as many as 130 miles of river in the patrol’s Laredo Sector, as well as other parts of the U.S.-Mexico border.

Although Border Patrol and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials say the chemical is safe for animals, detractors say the experiment is reminiscent of the Vietnam War-era Agent Orange chemical program and raises questions about long-term effects.

“We don’t believe that is even moral,â€

its been put on hold