Thread: TX: Fence in the works near local border crossing

June 4, 2007

This from AZ Central, "After three years of cleanups, the federal government has achieved no better than a 1 percent solution for the problem of trash left in southern Arizona by illegal border-crossers.Cleanup crews from various agencies, volunteer groups and the Tohono O'odham Nation hauled about 250,000 pounds of trash from thousands of acres of federal, state and private land across southern Arizona from 2002 to 2005, says the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.But that's only a fraction of the nearly 25 million pounds of trash thought to be out there."
http://thecitizensjournalblog.blogspot. ... er-in.html

VIDEO:
Huge Illegal Alien lay Up site full of garbage:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=87e_1190809921

If Al Gore really cares about the environment, he should stop blathering about supposed "global warming" and talk about this.

[Illegal Immigrants] turn the land into vast latrine, leaving behind revolting mounds of personal refuse and enough discarded plastic bags to stock Wal-Mart.
-Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steels, “Who left the Door Open?â€

Environmental Impact From Illegal Immigration
by Tom Tancredo
http://scerp.org/bi/BI_IX/Tancredo%20chapter16.doc

Border trash troubles

This is from the YUMA SUN Newspaper:

June 6, 2007 - 9:43PM
FROM STAFF AND AP REPORTS
Despite cleanup efforts by various agencies and the federal government in the desert along the border, southern Arizona, including Yuma County, still faces the problem of trash left behind by illegal border-crossers.

Although trash is found all over the desert, larger quantities found in Yuma County are along the Colorado River and in designated "lay-up" spots or desert areas where undocumented immigrants await to be picked up, usually near interstate freeways and highways, said Ruben Conde, chief ranger for the Bureau of Land Management Colorado District.

When driving in the desert, smugglers not only violate regulations by driving off established roads and trails on public land but also destroy the landscape and vegetation, Conde said.

"They don't care if they're tearing up the landscape, if they're causing land erosion, if they're running over protected plants or cactus or anything like that. So that's a problem we're left with. The results of that: a scarred landscape and it looks terrible."

The amount of personal trash left behind also causes a "huge problem" because there are not enough people and resources to keep up with the area's desert cleanup. The trash that is never picked up is left and harms the environment.

"There's so much of it (trash) there's not enough volunteers to go to all these different places," Conde said.

Not only does the trash do damage to the environment, but the cleanup is "extremely expensive, extremely expensive. We've spent tens of thousands of dollars just out of the Yuma field office over the past couple of years cleaning up trash related to illegal border crossers," Conde said.

Authorities estimate the 3.2 million-plus immigrants caught by the Border Patrol dropped 25 million pounds of garbage in the southern Arizona desert from July 1999 through June 2005. The figure assumes that each illegal immigrant discards eight pounds of trash, the weight of some abandoned backpacks found in the desert.

The trash is piling up faster than it can be cleaned up. Considering that the Border Patrol apprehended more than 577,000 illegal immigrants in 2004-05 alone, the BLM figures that those people left almost 4 million pounds of trash that same year.

That’s 16 times what was picked up in three years. And that doesn’t include the unknown amounts of garbage left by border-crossers who don’t get caught.

In 2002, the United States estimated that removing all litter from lands just in southeast Arizona — east of the Tohono Reservation — would cost about $4.5 million over five years. This count didn’t include such trash hotbeds as Ironwood Forest National Monument, the Altar Valley, Organ Pipe and Cabeza Prieta.

Since then, Congress appropriated about $3.4 million for a wide range of environmental remediation measures in all of southern Arizona. This includes repairing roads, building fences and removing abandoned cars.

The five-year tab is $62.9 million for all forms of environmental remediation for immigration-related damage across southeast Arizona, including $23 million for the first year.
http://www.eons.com/groups/topic/757206

At the very least these people should also be charged with littering, isn't that a 1,000 fine? 1 million illegals times $1,000 would help to pay to clean up their mess. The thing about it is that when there are laws which are only enforced upon one group (US) and then you have another group (IA) who are not expected to follow the laws that in itself creates 2 classes, upper and lower. We are the second class citizens of a country we belong in and they are the first class citizens who are entitled to all the benefits that a US citizen should have and plus they do not have to follow our laws which creates resentment and anger from US citizens for being expected to not only follow the law but also to be denied the rights they are guaranteed by the very fact that they are citizens of this country. Not only do IA break in, steal, rape, murder, and create havoc but now in their journey to break the laws of our land they also trash it and they are not being held accountable for it so now we have to get volunteers and hire people to clean up another mess of theirs. I say get all that trash and dump it on Mexico's side, it can be built in to a barrier to keep them out since there is so much trash then lets see them cut their way through nd crawl underneath or dig a hole or get a ladder.

Ramiro Cordero, a supervisory Border Patrol agent in the El Paso sector, which includes all of New Mexico, said the fencing projects will use a post and rail design with wire mesh intended to create both a barrier for vehicles and a pedestrian deterrent.

We need Duncan Hunter's double-layer fencing, not single fencing!

Zeezil, this is a pretty damning article completely blowing the Sierra Club position out of the water! What can they say now?

Originally Posted by zeezil

Sheriff Joe's Inmates Collect Nearly 22 Million tons of trash left by invaders:

http://www.immigrationwatchdog.com/?p=2416