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Groups Struggle to Clean Up Mess Illegals Leave Behind
Environment; Posted on: 2008-05-07
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The cleanup is costing taxpayers millions
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The latest battle in the war on illegal immigration isn't over the
smuggling
of illegal immigrants, it's over the trash they leave behind.
Government officials and border activists say the garbage dumped in the
desert
by illegal immigrants and their smugglers is staggering.
And the cleanup is costing taxpayers millions.
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.
Border Patrol's Tucson sector, which covers most of the Arizona border,
doesn't have statistics about how many people cross through each year, but
on
average, agents apprehend 1,500 people a day, with 378,000 caught in 2007
alone.
The trash is a problem that activist groups, like the Minuteman Civil
Defense
Corps, say will not stop until the nation's southern border is secured.
"It's just like a flood," said Chris Simcox, the president of the
Minuteman
Civil Defense Corps. "You can't clean up the floodwaters until you stop
the
flood and fix the dam."
Successful efforts by the Border Patrol to secure well-trafficked crossing
spots in San Diego and El Paso have forced many immigrants to cross
through
federal and state lands along the Arizona border adding to the trash
problem,
McFarlin said.
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.
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