Thread: When illegals overrun U.S. national parks

The government is obligated to halt damage to wilderness fauna and flora


Illustration on the negative impact of illegal immigrants on U.S. national parks by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

By Ian Smith - - Tuesday, March 7, 2017

Every year, hundreds of thousands of illegal border-crossers pass through our national parks and wildlife refuges on their way to the interior to secure unlawful work or to smuggle in people and drugs. The trash, waste and discarded vehicles brought in by these thousands of individuals is so large federal land management agencies have admitted it has altered the ecological processes and degraded habitats in these areas. Newly confirmed Secretary for the Interior Ryan Zinke has a chance to change this and make great again our nation’s worst effected parklands.

Federal statutes like the Wilderness Act of 1964 were enacted to ensure that our nation’s most prized national endowments would be off-limits to exploitation and made fully available to the American public. But as the Interior Department’s National Park Service told the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI), in some of our natural reserves today, like southern Arizona’s Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, nearly half of all trails and sites are completely closed to the public due to high levels of illegal immigration and smuggling activities. In the closed-off areas, even park service staff must be accompanied by their agency’s own special law enforcement, itself a recent development in direct response to the level of dangerous illegal alien activity. Internal agency reports show thousands of pounds of drugs being seized in our parks annually sometimes trafficked in with “cloned agency trucks.” And according to the Justice Department, this is all due to the region’s “largely unprotected border.”

On top of being kept out of their own national parks, the American public is also being kept out of the conversation. Both the National Park Service and its sister component, U.S. Fish and Wildlife, have explained to the IRLI they don’t even estimate the damages to the natural and cultural resources that result from illegal border-crossing. How much is attributed to illegal aliens and smugglers in terms of theft, violent crime and diversion fires, which are purposely set to shake off border agents, the agencies cannot tell us.

As a result, the public is relegated to one-off Government Accountability Office reports or the very rare congressional hearing to find out what’s happening in their national parks. But by not assessing the damages and dangers in our parks, the public is kept in the dark and our elected officials will never address the issue. In contrast, President Trump has recently mandated that the Homeland Security Department track and report illegal-alien crime. By doing so, the president is making the consequences of immigration fully transparent for the American people. Mr. Zinke must do the same.

On top of transparency, the secretary can make direct changes. Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act states that Cabinet secretaries must ensure their federal actions do not jeopardize the existence and habitats of endangered or threatened species.

Not only must those agency heads consult with the secretary for the interior, but the secretary may himself initiate those consultations. Following these consultations, if the secretary finds plant and animal species are being threatened, he must suggest alternative solutions.

Documents the IRLI received already show Mr. Zinke’s agency has made these findings vis—vis illegal border-crossing and that the agency wants change. According to internal reports from U.S. Fish and Wildlife about its Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge, the foot and car traffic caused by illegal aliens (as well as Border Patrol agents) has impacted vegetation, hydrological processes, wilderness character and animal life, including the much-endangered Sonoran pronghorn. Considering so much of our immigration system, including federal actions, encourages or allows hundreds of thousands of illegal border-crossers to stream through our border-area parks and refuges annually, Mr. Zinke must call on our immigration agencies to turn off the main magnets of illegal immigration (employment, welfare, birthright citizenship) and ensure that we have the strongest fence possible to keep out the cartels.

The Wilderness Act recognizes our most precious natural possessions as areas “where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.” That’s a promise to our progeny which we must keep.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...ational-parks/

These people truly just make me sick by their disrespectful, harmful and damaging acts. IT MUST END!!

Environmentalists are quiet about the damage done along our border by illegals and drug smugglers but not when it comes to building a fence or wall. Wonder why?

Most of the radical environmentalists aren't American.

The wall just got 20 feet higher, 6 feet thicker, and 10 feet deeper!!!

Really am sick and tired of Mexico and their people destroying our land, not only on the border but the interior as well.

Turn them right back around at the border. Stop detaining them, stop the babysitting of their children, and stop this invasion!

Stop the anchor baby scam and cut off ALL freebies.

The trash left behind by people illegally crossing our border is another Environmental Disaster to hit the USA

Securing our Border on Federal Lands

San Bernardino National Forest


LEO W. BANKS - This trash-filled wash is below Diablito Mountain, about 5 miles - west of Interstate 19, southwest of Arivaca Junction. It is 21 miles - north of the border at Nogales. The illegal aliens who dump their trash - here have just emerged from the Tumacacori Highlands, which are also - trashed out.

trash left by illegals in Arizona

Trash and clothing left by illegal aliens attempting to enter the United States for Mexico litter
the desert floor as seen in an aerial view from a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Office Black Hawk helicopter near Arivaca, Ariz., south of

It's just putrid and disgusting.

The story link to one of those pictures reads.....

The garbage left behind by the “migrant” invaders of Europe are reminiscent of the trash left behind by America’s migrant invaders across the Mexican border. Here are pics taken by residents of Tucson, Arizona, of the debris those invaders left behind in the wash that leads directly north to Tucson.

A Minuteman stands among hundreds of disgarded bags and clothing at a layup area in the Arizona desert.

If you think Arizona is making this stuff up, here’s an account by FoxNews, May 7, 2008:

In 2006 alone, more than 1.18 million pounds of trash was collected along southern Arizona border, many in the meeting spots where immigrants rest, change clothes and wait to hitch a ride further north with a smuggler.
Arizonia officials have spent approximately $4.4 million over five years to clean up the mess, that continues to build with each crossing. Nearly $1 million was spent for 2007 from a base BLM appropriation….
Since 2003, the Arizona BLM has run a project to mitigate the damage caused by the migration of illegal immigrants along the state’s border with Mexico. “What we’re beginning to wonder is how extensive is the problem?” McFarlin said. “How many millions of pounds of garbage? How many roads are really damaged? How many miles of illegal trails?” McFarlin’s agency works with local government, student volunteers and civic groups to bag trash in wilderness areas frequented by immigrants. The BLM also disguises smuggling roads by planting new vegetation over the desert tracks carved by smugglers.

“The first thing you notice if you were to drive across some of this land is you see water bottles, lots of water bottles,” McFarlin said. “Where people stop to wait to be picked up — we call them ‘layup’ spots — then you will see more of the clothing, medicine bottles, papers, everything. “We recently cleaned up one location with almost 4,000 backpacks left behind,” she said. “We’ve seen it time and time again, where we go in and clean up these areas and within months they’re just filled again with the same debris.”

If these actions had been done in one of our Northwest forests or seashore national parks, there would be an uprising of outraged environmentalists. Strange that when it’s happening on the Arizona-Mexican border, no one cares.


You won’t see these pictures on CNN, CBS, ABC, or NBC. Nor will they mention the disease that comes from the uncovered human waste left in our desert.

~Éowyn
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And the lead in story compares it to EU migrants' trash problems for its citizens.....anyone that doesn't believe or think about DISEASES FROM REFUGEES, MIGRANTS, ILLEGALS has their head in the sand. The gov't health agencies do not talk about it either and they have to be well aware of that mass influxes from other lands can cause diseases; whether it be from just across our southern border or importing refugees from other continents. The numbers are in the millions all toll.......







The Vienna website unzensuriert.at reports (Google translation), Oct. 10, 2015, that the 1,600 inhabitants of the border town of Nickelsdorf are “literally overwhelmed” by “illegal immigrants” who left “an orgy of waste and feces wherever you look.”


Anyone seeing “the uncontrollable crowds and their behavior” realizes that “Austria has lost sovereignty over its borders.” Both the army and the police seem helpless to do anything, lacking “the political will.”

The population of the border town are similarly resigned. For months now, the women of Nickelsdorf no longer travel alone by bike or on foot to avoid being “confronted alone by a crowd of love-hungry young foreign men.”

Town residents’ use of trains (that transport the “aliens” to Vienna) are also affected. Witnesses say “all train cars are extremely dirty and had to be cleaned and disinfected. Some are so polluted, they are no longer usable. Many of the immigrants from the Middle East” are unfamiliar with “western toilets – just as with any type of waste disposal.”

Commuters report that the “hundreds of refugees” who recently occupied Arena Nova, the indoor multi-purpose stadium in Wiener Neustadt, Austria, “defecated everywhere” and “completely ruined” the stadium’s “mobile toilets”.

There are “rumors that a number of police cadets who were employed here in Nickelsdorf are fighting a losing battle and are suffering from unspecified ailments.”

Many of Nickelsdorf’s residents “feel completely abandoned by the government.” One man compares their present siege to the end of the Second World War when Austrians “were defenseless, at the mercy of marauding Russians.“

One volunteer, evidently “distraught,” said that “we repeatedly are insulted by the refugees calling us Christians whores.” Others do not understand why the migrants have “the blessing of the federal government to march uncontrolled into their country.” They note that among the migrants were “the strangest types,” including Chinese people seemingly from Mongolia or similar areas — not Syrians. There is a persistent rumor that Hungary “exploited the chaos to empty their overcrowded prisons.”

There are also persistent reports of Ruhr, an infectious intestinal disease. After the Catholic Church in Nickelsdorf briefly housed “refugees” in an empty house, the house had to be disinfected by the health authorities. Residents are asking “Why have we not seen or heard anything about it in the media? Why we are not informed about what‘s going on here?”

https://fellowshipoftheminds.com/tag...ls-in-arizona/

Awful, hideous, third world, disgusting. And these are the people who did that you want in your town, your church, your work place, your neighborhood?

GET THEM OUT AND KEEP THEM OUT.

They've gone full SJW:


http://www.colorlines.com/articles/h...ve-immigration