Groups Struggle to Clean Up Mess Illegal Immigrants Leave Behind – (as they cross the border) From: foxnews.com
Tagged: activist, borderPosted on: May 7th, 2008
The latest battle in the war on illegal immigration isn’t over the smuggling of undocumented workers, 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.”*
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