Imperial Beach Mayor calls on Joe Biden and Gavin Newsom to declare State of Emergency over Tijuana sewage –

SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – For decades, Mexico has dumped millions of gallons of sewage from the Tijuana River into the Pacific Ocean, which the contaminates the water off Imperial Beach and Coronado.

Imperial Beach Mayor Paloma Aguirre says the crisis is worse than ever before and has written two letters to Gov. Gavin Newsom requesting he declare a state of emergency over the Tijuana sewage crisis. Newsom denied her first request, and the second was just sent last week, so she is still awaiting a response.

But Aguirre isn’t stopping with Gov. Newsom. She is also calling on…