Post by bounce on May 23, 2006 5:33:49 GMT -8
Yet, this is what they're doing to our border. Where in the HELL are GreenPeace and the ecoNazis???
SASABE, Ariz.—If you were to crash your stolen truck through the border fence, as smugglers do, then abandon it when the Border Patrol closes in, as smugglers often do, and then just started walking north, you would have extraordinary insight into the environmental damage undocumented immigrants are causing this nation's public lands.
The southern part of Arizona is a wild and diverse place. At least four different ecosystems thrive along the border, and the one thing they all have in common is that they're being trashed by undocumented immigrant traffic. Of all the damage in the ongoing border war—and it ranges from drug smuggling to a near-bankrupt health-care system to falling wages—none will last as long as the footprints left by the men and women who pass through the deserts of southern Arizona. I've been at the border on and off for five years, and the damage only seems to get worse. There is more garbage, more tire damage, more evidence of people. Always, always more trashed landscape.
"Trashed" has a lot of meanings down here. For Mitch Ellis, the manager of the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge, which sits right on the border and gets an estimated 2,000 immigrants a night moving through during peak periods, "trashed" means an area three times the size of Boston with enough smuggler roads that you could drive from New York to Omaha, a place where 3,000 of the 9,000 volunteer hours donated to the refuge last year were used to clean up immigrant trash.
The word "ILLEGAL" is curiously missing here, but other than that, I agree.
This photo shows the "RESPECT" they have for America.
Lots more: www.slate.com/id/2131722/entry/2131710/
