Posted on 12/14/2010 6:24:23 PM PST by La Lydia
In a sweltering June morning, Jason De Leon shrugs off his pack in a rugged gorge in Arizona’s Coronado National Forest. He hunches down over a scattering of water bottles, checking for dates, and asks a student to take the site’s GPS coordinates. Above his head, along the rock face, travelers have transformed a small, secluded hollow into a shrine lined with offerings: rosaries, crucifixes, candles, scapulars, and small pictures of saints, each bearing a printed prayer in Spanish. “Take care of me in dangerous places,” reads one card. “Protect me from thieves and in evil times,” entreats another. Nearby, a small engraved plastic pendant offers a more direct prayer: “The other side, Tucson, Arizona, 2010.”
The shrine, says De Leon, an archaeologist at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, is archaeological evidence of a large and nearly invisible migration. Over the past decade, millions of migrants from Mexico, Guatemala, and other Latin American countries have risked their lives attempting to cross the waterless expanses of the Sonoran Desert to secretly enter the United States.
The Department of Homeland Security estimates that 10.8 million illegal migrants were living in the U.S. in 2009. Although this is down from 11.6 million in 2008, these migrants are following a trend that has persisted throughout human history....
The academic who runs this research is an anchor baby.
Link to another article about the same “project” that we are paying for:
http://www.washington.edu/alumni/columns/march10/garbage.html
open borders ping
I agree! Runners World had a fluff piece about a couple of illegals a few months ago. Totally ridiculous.
As a Catholic, I’d like to know what these migrants are thinking? The Jesus I know wouldn’t advocate stealing. What makes them think they’re so righteous to sneak into this nation? I’ll never understand that logic.
And If the amnesty crowd gets their way with the so called Dream Act, we`ll be seeing many more will be following that route. Please call the list at http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-63874.html and let them know we are watching and taking names for 2012.
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It wasn't invisable from where I saw it.
Haven’t all those passing through also left tons of trash behind. Tons of trash that animals find and eat such as plastic bottles, baby drappers, empty cans, plastic rings that held 6 cans together.They liter the land,trashing it for milies.Washington feels border angents entering federal lands causes more damage to the environment than does, drug cartels, who make camps and cook using products to make coke,dumping all their trash on land,lakes,streams , etc,etc ?
To: moonshinner_09
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/a/Arizona-Desert-Trash.htm
9 posted on Tuesday, December 14, 2010 10:00:20 PM by La Lydia
Thank you, this is the area I was refering too. I cannot believe, Washington does not see any problems within this area with miles of trash. This is a disgrace.Thank you for the link.
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