This Is Beyond Stupdity. What Are They Thinking? Toxic Aerial Spraying

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I sure hope a lot of people voice their protest about this since this is beyond stupid and could have detrimental effects to not only the soil, water but to people. Some genius decided that in order to stop the illegal immigrants coming over the border into the USA, that the US Border Patrol plans to spray [i]chemical herbicide in order to eradicate stands of the Carrizo Cane, an invasive plant that grows as tall as 30 feet and provides Convenient cover for undocumented border crossers and smugglers. Possibly beginning next week, the US Border Patrol could commence aerial herbicide spraying along a slice of the Rio Grande between the twin cities of Laredo, Texas, and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas. The experimental spraying would cover an area that stretches 1.1 miles between the Laredo Railroad Bridge and Laredo Community College directly across from Mexico, said Roque Sarinana, public affairs officer for the Border Patrol’s Laredo sector. In addition to aerial spraying of the herbicide imazapyr, the Border Patrol will employ hand-cutting and mechanical methods that involve applying the killer chemical at ground-level, Sarinana told Frontera NorteSur in an a phone interview. Getting rid of Carrizo cane should improve the Border Patrol’s “line of sight up and down the river, ” Sarinana said. Depending on weather conditions, the first dustings of imazapyr could begin March 25, Sarinana confirmed. “As of now, that’s the plan,” he said. [/i] http://censored-news.blogspot.com/2009/03/borders-agent-orange-controversy.html {Warning: NOT a referral link but link to the article} There are several articles related to this one and all basically say the same thing I further read a PDF file on the chemical Imazapy itself. The effects of the herbicide have only been tested on animals..but here are some facts from the PDF file one can download [i]Adverse effects found in laboratory animals after chronic exposure to imazapyr include the following: fluid accumulation in the lungs of female mice, kidney cysts in male mice, abnormal blood formation in the spleen of female rats, an increase in the number of brain and thyroid cancers in male rats, and an increase in the number of tumors and cancers of the adrenal gland in female rats. Imazapyr can persist in soil for over a year. Persistence studies suggest that imazapyr residues damage plants at concentrations that are not detectable by laboratory analysis. Imazapyr moves readily in soil. It has contaminated surface and ground water following aerial and ground forestry applications. [/i] Not only would this chemical eradicate the foliage that the US Border Patrol hopes to eliminate, but will pollute the soil, air and water and could affect animal life in which there are about 1,000 known species and three on the endangered list. WORSE: This spaying of this toxic chemical CAN AND WILL AFFECT PEOPLE ON BOTH SIDES OF THE BORDER I MIGHT ADD as it will also escape into the air. EXCUSE ME!!!! Does anyone find this stupidity in the making? Now our government wants to poison us? Look what Agent Orange did not only to the people of Vietnam, but to our own veterans who came into contact with it. I know many out their may not have sympathy for illegals...but this will affect OUR people too The planned aerial spraying is to begin March 25th. Here's another link to an article in which gives a link where one can write to the US Attorney General Eric Holder so one can voice their opinion about this http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/2755552-breaking-news-us-feds-to-defoliate-rio-grande-river-bank