Thread: Illegal immigration creating monster trash crisis

Illegal immigration creating monster trash crisis
Arizona estimates 4 million pounds contaminate deserts annually

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While anti-border wall activists see a coming eco-apocalypse, some border-wall proponents already see one in
place as a result of unchecked illegal immigration.

The problems linked to illegal immigrations have had much attention lately: the criminals and potential terrorists entering without permission, the young children needing huge amount of social services, workers taking jobs that Americans, in fact, would do.

Then there’s the burden on taxpayers to pay for all the social services they use, as well as the possibility that lax state voting rules let them sign up and vote.

Now a new one has begun getting attention: The millions, and millions, of pounds of garbage left in southwest America’s deserts by those traveling, illegally, through.

“Perhaps the state hardest hit by trash at the border is Arizona, which shares 370 miles of border with Mexico,” says a new report from the Center for Immigration Studies.

“Behind only the Rio Grande Valley in Texas, Tucson, Arizona, is consistently the sector of the border with the highest number of Border Patrol apprehensions,” the report explains.

The report explains, “The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality estimates that over 2,000 tons of trash are discarded at the Arizona border every year. As a consequence, the department established a website entitled ‘Arizona Border Trash’ in 2012 to coordinate and keep track of the state’s trash cleanup operations.

According to ADEQ, each ton of trash requires landfill fees of $37 to $49, which are footed by Arizona taxpayers. That does not include fees for materials, transportation, or labor. ADEQ further estimates that each border-crosser leaves an average of six to eight pounds of trash behind.”

The harm from the 4 million pounds of trash left annually add up in many ways, the report states.

“According to the ADEQ website, border trash ‘has been shown to affect human health, the environment and economic wellbeing.’ Included among the specific impacts are watershed degradation, soil erosion, damage to infrastructure, loss of vegetation and wildlife, and escaped campfires.”

Among those giving the issue some attention recently was Tucker Carlson on Fox News. He said, “I hate litter, which is one of the reasons I’m so against illegal immigration,” the report said.

“Some journalists jumped to vilify Carlson, suggesting that he was referring to the illegal aliens themselves as human ‘litter,’ These journalists are perhaps unaware of the environmental problems presented by the garbage left on our southern border,” the report said.

The report includes a chart showing the correlation between the illegal aliens arriving, and the trash left behind.

“The correlation is clear. In fiscal years 2011 and 2012, when Arizona was experiencing over 120,000 border apprehensions, over 65,000 pounds of border trash was being collected annually. In the following years, as apprehensions fell as low as 70,000, border trash collections dropped, too – reaching a low of just 19,000 pounds in fiscal year 2015 before jumping back up in 2016,” the report explained.

The federal Bureau of Land Management explains there was, for several years, a state-funded project called the southern Arizona Project that included, as one part of its mission, collecting trash.

“While the broader program has ended, trash collections have continued into 2018. Through June of this year, over 15,000 pounds of trash have been removed,” the CIS said.

“Every illegal alien prevented from crossing our southern border represents about seven pounds of garbage that will no longer be left behind to potentially damage water systems, wildlife, and soil. As such, lawmakers ought to consider that securing the border is not just a matter of national security, but environmental security too,” it said.

https://www.wnd.com/2018/09/illegal-...-trash-crisis/

These are disgusting low-lifes ruining our country in every possible way, shape and form.

They ALL gotta go!!

GRRRR!!!!!

These hideous creatures are nothing but trouble. For every dollar of good they cause $1000 of harm.

Latin Americans are litterbugs. They all do it and don't see anything wrong with it.

This problem comes up every now and then but the media for the most part ignores it. Plus the environmentalists ignore it so just goes to show you if it doesn't fit the agenda...crickets. Too many open borders people in this country, that's for sure.

By Matthew Sussis on September 19, 2018



Several weeks ago, various members of the media attacked Tucker Carlson for saying, "I hate litter, which is one of the reasons I'm so against illegal immigration." Some journalists jumped to vilify Carlson, suggesting that he was referring to the illegal aliens themselves as human "litter". These journalists are perhaps unaware of the environmental problems presented by the garbage left on our southern border.

Indeed, one of the most direct environmental impacts of illegal immigration is one that's clearly observable to anyone who lives at the southwest border — the thousands of pounds of trash that are discarded and left behind by aliens and their hired human smugglers.

Perhaps the state hardest hit by trash at the border is Arizona, which shares 370 miles of border with Mexico. Behind only the Rio Grande Valley in Texas, Tucson, Ariz., is consistently the sector of the border with the highest number of Border Patrol apprehensions.

The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) estimates that over 2,000 tons of trash are discarded at the Arizona border every year. As a consequence, the department established a website entitled "Arizona Border Trash" in 2012 to coordinate and keep track of the state's trash cleanup operations. According to ADEQ, each ton of trash requires landfill fees of $37 to $49, which are footed by Arizona taxpayers. That does not include fees for materials, transportation, or labor. ADEQ further estimates that each border-crosser leaves an average of six to eight pounds of trash behind.

According to the ADEQ website, border trash "has been shown to affect human health, the environment and economic wellbeing." Included among the specific impacts are watershed degradation, soil erosion, damage to infrastructure, loss of vegetation and wildlife, and escaped campfires.

Using the list of collections from the same website, it is possible to analyze total amounts of trash collected by fiscal year, and compare those figures to the U.S. Border Patrol's monthly data on total illegal aliens apprehended by sector.

Arizona border apprehensions include data from two sectors: Tucson and Yuma, with the large majority of apprehensions (ranging from 80 percent to 95 percent) coming from Tucson.



Source: CBP monthly apprehensions by sector, FY2000-2017; ADEQ's Arizona Border Trash Pickup Data

The correlation is clear. In fiscal years 2011 and 2012, when Arizona was experiencing over 120,000 border apprehensions, over 65,000 pounds of border trash was being collected annually. In the following years, as apprehensions fell as low as 70,000, border trash collections dropped, too — reaching a low of just 19,000 pounds in fiscal year 2015 before jumping back up in 2016.

According to an official at the Bureau of Land Management's Arizona State Office, these pickups were previously part of a larger state-funded project called the Southern Arizona Project, which was started by BLM 13 years ago. The project's stated goals were "to provide a safe and secure environment for the public, employees, and users of public lands, to protect public land resources and values from the effects of smuggling, and to coordinate and collaborate with others working on border safety, security, and environmental protection." To achieve these goals, the project took a number of pro-environmental steps, including:

Building physical barriers to prevent smuggling in Arizona's national monuments such as the Sonoran Desert National Monument and Ironwood Forest National Monument;
Strengthening partnerships with local law enforcement agencies to protect public safety along the monuments;
Restoring the desert land from soil erosion as a result of smugglers crossing;
Converting windmill-powered watering sites for endangered animals, which are often vandalized by smugglers and illegal entrants, into sunken troughs that are more accessible to animals than humans, also decreasing competition for water; and
Collecting trash along the border.

The final Southern Arizona Project annual report — from 2016 — is still available online.

While the broader program has ended, trash collections have continued into 2018. Through June of this year, over 15,000 pounds of trash have been removed. Further, BLM continues to conduct other operations that were part of the project, such as desert soil restoration.

Every illegal alien prevented from crossing our southern border represents about seven pounds of garbage that will no longer be left behind to potentially damage water systems, wildlife, and soil. As such, lawmakers ought to consider that securing the border is not just a matter of national security, but environmental security too.

https://cis.org/Sussis/Trash-Border-...al-Immigration

It's heart-breaking to see this disrespect for our country and our environment. Third World Crap. Totally disgusting.

And that TRASH follows them to the neighborhoods they move in to. They dump it out their front door, the back door and in our alleyways!

Get these people out of our country and build that wall.

They turn our country into the very cesspool they left creating MORE poverty and ghettos!

NO THANK YOU! NO VACANCY!!! SHUT THIS ALL DOWN!

Implement Judy's Plan B and shut it down at the source in their countries before they leave there.

Pass a law making it illegal for anyone to issue a Social Security Number or Work Permit to an illegal alien in the United States. Most Americans think this is already illegal, fix this "loophole" now. Get it in this year's budget bill.