Another reason
Here is another reason to stop the illegal border crossings.
"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 in 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.
Authorities estimate the 3.2 million-plus entrants caught by the Border Patrol dropped that much garbage in the Southern Arizona desert from July 1999 through June 2005. The figure assumes that each illegal entrant discards 8 pounds of trash, the weight of some abandoned backpacks found in the desert."
This also does not count for all the damages to vegetation from foot traffic and off road vehicles or the oil and fuel leaks from those poorly maintained off road vehicles.
"Here are examples of what the immigration invasion has wrought in publicly owned resources like the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, the Coronado National Forest and the San Pedro Riparian Conservation Area. Jesse Juen, the BLM (Bureau of Land Management) Field Representative in Tuscon told the Senate Subcommittee that, over the past two years wildfires caused by immigrants smoking cigarettes or building fires to warm themselves at night have destroyed about 20% of the riparian vegetation along the San Pedro River in Cochise County. Plastic water bottles, food wrappers, toilet paper and human feces cover large areas where fences have been cut for the passage of human coyotes. Mr. Juen said the off-road vehicles of alien smugglers often go down steep embankments and motor oil and fuel leaks into streams and endangered species habitat. " (emphasis mine)
Yet for all of this damage, nary a peep has been heard from environmental groups such as the Sierra Club. If they DO complain....it's about the border patrol agents!
If ever there was a compelling reason for serious border enforcement (including a real fence) protecting our fragile natural resources is one of the best. It's a no brainer for true conservationists and yet we only seem to be hearing silence out of the ones who are ideologically married to the Democratic Party. I wonder why that is...
"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 in 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.
Authorities estimate the 3.2 million-plus entrants caught by the Border Patrol dropped that much garbage in the Southern Arizona desert from July 1999 through June 2005. The figure assumes that each illegal entrant discards 8 pounds of trash, the weight of some abandoned backpacks found in the desert."
This also does not count for all the damages to vegetation from foot traffic and off road vehicles or the oil and fuel leaks from those poorly maintained off road vehicles.
"Here are examples of what the immigration invasion has wrought in publicly owned resources like the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, the Coronado National Forest and the San Pedro Riparian Conservation Area. Jesse Juen, the BLM (Bureau of Land Management) Field Representative in Tuscon told the Senate Subcommittee that, over the past two years wildfires caused by immigrants smoking cigarettes or building fires to warm themselves at night have destroyed about 20% of the riparian vegetation along the San Pedro River in Cochise County. Plastic water bottles, food wrappers, toilet paper and human feces cover large areas where fences have been cut for the passage of human coyotes. Mr. Juen said the off-road vehicles of alien smugglers often go down steep embankments and motor oil and fuel leaks into streams and endangered species habitat. " (emphasis mine)
Yet for all of this damage, nary a peep has been heard from environmental groups such as the Sierra Club. If they DO complain....it's about the border patrol agents!
If ever there was a compelling reason for serious border enforcement (including a real fence) protecting our fragile natural resources is one of the best. It's a no brainer for true conservationists and yet we only seem to be hearing silence out of the ones who are ideologically married to the Democratic Party. I wonder why that is...
Labels: Environmentalists, Illegal Immigration
posted by The Lady Logician at
7:12 AM
5 Comments:
Sorry, but I find it difficult to be worried about the environment when these criminals have MURDERED at least two National Park rangers in Organ Pipe Cactus National Park. I hate to see the view despoiled by a fence, but when you are told not to drive on certain National Park roads because you might be KILLED, then I want the biggest, baddest fence we can find, complete with land mines and machine gun turrets, if necessary.
J. Ewing
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Anonymous, at 9:35 AM
Jerry, Jerry......you missed the subtle point....
Here you have groups that are supposed to be concerne about the enviromnent and human rights and all these other "ideals" ignoring major violations of those ideals because the violators are a liberal "protected class"........
LL
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The Lady Logician, at 11:20 AM
Less subtlety, please. I can attack these nutty environmentalists with words, on any number of issues in which their hypocrisy and stupidity compete for supremacy. But murderers I want executed, and potential murderers I want barred from any place I might want to be.
JE
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Anonymous, at 1:50 PM
I've never been south of Tijuana but I've heard stories. I wouldn't want to live there, and I sure as Hell don't want there to move here.
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Kermit, at 6:14 PM
Kermit - I've been to several places in Mexico and it really depends on where you are. If you are in the tourista areas all is beautiful. However, if you stray off of the beaten path....
The thing is, they don't trash their own country in this manner!
Speaking of the Sierra Club....guess who knocked on my door this evening??? I hit that poor college kid with about half of my aresenal and he left thinking I was one of "them"! That's the thing most don't realize....the base word of Conservative is CONSERVE! We don't want to trash the world, we really do want to CONSERVE the environment - we just disagree on how to do it!
LL
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The Lady Logician, at 6:35 PM
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