Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Trashing the border

A USA Today article:

Every time I go down to the Mexican border, I'm struck by a down and dirty realization: This beautiful land looks like a dump. Recently I was at a waist-high border vehicle barrier in a valley northeast of Tecate, Baja California. As far as the eye could see, strewn past barbed wire or collecting knee-deep in culverts, were water bottles, food wrappers, used paper products such as toilet paper and maxi pads, even felt shoe covers designed to obscure tracks.

"This was a beautiful refuge 10 years ago," Mitch Ellis, manager of Arizona's Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge, says. "Just stunning." Now, he says, it looks like a "war zone." The refuge shares just 5½ miles with the Mexican border but is a staging point near the Sasabe border crossing and is crisscrossed by highways that serve as pick-up routes. The sheer amount of foot and vehicle traffic — at least 200,000 to 300,000 crossers a year on the 118,000-acre refuge — makes endangered species conservation a losing battle.

Last year, 500 tons of trash was strewn across the Buenos Aires refuge, as well as human waste and about 100 abandoned vehicles. Wild animals are choking on plastic or getting tangled in trash, and crossers' campfires have sparked wildfires. Aerial photos, Ellis says, reveal a shocking web of 1,300 miles of illegal trails cut through the refuge. Read the rest of the article
here >>

Remember, this is just one wildlife refuge. Multiply this by all the others & it is sickening. The same is being done to private ranches along the border. Amazingly, the major environmental groups blame the USA & its border fences & policies, rather than putting the blame on the illegals who are destroying pristine areas of the US. Go figure.

For a related article with a link to photos,
go here >>

Also check out this site,
Desert Invasion - USA: It goes deeper into the damage done to the environment by illegals.

Thank the Congress & the President for doing little to protect the environment from this destructive on-slaught. Vote out of office those who do not put a strong border-enforcement policy first, before there's any talk about "citizenship" for the 12-20 million illegals who broke US law to get here. Also thank the hypocritical environmnetal groups.

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