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SpaceX Polluted Border Area, Mexican President Sheinbaum Says

A SpaceX Starship rocket launches from Starbase, Texas, on May 27. 

Photographer: Sergio Flores/AFP/Getty Images

SpaceX’s Starship rocket launches in Texas have polluted an area across the border with debris, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said.

The president will meet with her cabinet soon on the “security and environmental impacts” of the rocket launches, the president said at her daily media briefing. The government is “reviewing what laws have been violated” and based on that review will “file the necessary lawsuits,” she said.