Critics oppose Border Patrol poison plan

The Border Patrol plans to poison plant life along a mile stretch of the Rio Grande riverbank in Texas to eliminate the dense foliage used by suspected illegal immigrants and criminals to hide. If successful, the $2.1 million pilot project, which is set to begin this week, 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.... opponents of the action say it harkens to the Vietnam War-era Agent Orange chemical program and could be harmful over the long-term.