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Illegal Aliens Are Trashing U.S. Border ... Literally
Each illegal immigrant leaves behind an average of 6 to 8 pounds of waste during the journey from Mexico into the U.S., according to government estimates. With nearly 1 million people crossing into Arizona each year, that amounts to 8 million pounds, or 4,000 tons, of garbage in the Grand Canyon State alone. The most ravaged areas are at smugglers’ "lay-up” sites near the border, where aliens wait to be transported to areas such as Phoenix and Tucson, according to a Dallas Morning News reporter who visited the border area. At those sites illegals leave behind empty water jugs, shoes, backpacks and clothing, often discarded so more people can be packed into vehicles taking them north.
Story Continues Below "It would be an understatement to say parts of the desert have been trashed,” said Gail Aschenbrenner, spokeswoman for the 1.7 million-acre Coronado National Forest, which shares a 60-mile border with Mexico. Federal and state money to clean up the border area, and volunteer cleanup efforts, haven’t kept pace with the problem, the Morning News reports. The Tohono O’odham Indian Reservation, which shares a 70-mile border with Mexico, has been particularly hard hit by the trash problem. Up to 1,500 illegal aliens cross the reservation daily, leaving behind more than 4 million pounds of trash a year. The ranch of Tom and Dena Kay also shares a border with Mexico, and they haul off a pickup full of garbage each week. Said Mrs. Kay: "It makes you very, very angry because there’s such a lack of respect for the land and the people living here.”
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