Federal money targets clean up: Youth Corps part of effort to pick up [ILLEGAL] immigrant waste

The Sierra Vista Herald ^ | 15 July 2003 | Bill Hess

[gubamyster]

Literally, the illegals are coming to take a sh!t on America and we have to pay to clean it up.

It seems we have come full circle here. American kids can’t get summer jobs because they are so scarce, so now the Americans have to “volunteer” to pick up the illegals’ trash. I thought US citizens wouldn’t do this kind of work.

Illegals – bringing trash that only Americans will clean up.

[hsmomx3]

Disgusting!!! Not you.

[janetgreen]

I wish everyone would stop and think "WHY IS OUR OWN PRESIDENT ALLOWING THIS TO HAPPEN? WHY IS HE ALLOWING THOUSANDS OF ILLEGAL ALIENS TO COME INTO AMERICA ON A DAILY BASIS? I wish everyone would write to George Bush and ask him the answers. We sure haven't heard a word from him about any of this.

[m18436572]

bttt!

[JackelopeBreeder]

I think Tacis has been reading my posts to Spiff and HiJinx. I have been trying to talk them into quitting their day jobs and help me run a beer and taco wagon out on the trails. I think it would be highly lucrative, but both of them are having integrity issues with it.

[JackelopeBreeder]

Sorry, my friends, but I refuse to even try to take this little project seriously. So the San Pedro gets three weeks of attention -- how about the other forty-nine weeks of the year?

Note that none of the tree-huggers have raised a peep about this. Where is the Sierra Club? Where is the Center for Biodiversity for whom the San Pedro is a sacred place?

Where is the Nature Conservancy? They actually run the San Pedro and Ramsey Canyon preserves -- and never say word one about the problem or make any attempts at cleaning up the mess.

Local citizens' groups have already been tackling this problem, giving up their weekends to clean up the worst around their houses, and it never ends. The best estimate I've seen from government sources is that each illegal jettisons about eight to ten pounds of solid trash by the time he meets his ride. Extrapolating from last year's apprehension numbers and estimating how many more got away, that means that we potentially have six million pounds of trash that needs to be picked up just in this county. Remember, more is added every day and night.

And the solution is to get our kids to volunteer to go clean up this crap? Literally, crap? In the summer heat of Arizona? If you did this to prisoners every liberal boohoo in the country would be filing lawsuits.

(Oh, yeah -- don't worry too much about the turds floating out around Lewis Springs. The San Pedro flows northwards out of Mexico into Arizona. A few more turds really isn't making it measurably more undrinkable. Thats why the illegals carry bottled water.)

[janetgreen]

I'll write to the Nature Conservancy and the Sierra Club about this outrage, and see what their response is. If I get any response, I'll post it.

[SCalGal]

$25,000 for 26,000 plastic bags?!? Where do I sign up to sell that to the feds?

This isn't going to make a dent in the trash, but it's a sort of acknowlegement that there is a problem. Watch, and let's see if they declare the trash problem "solved".

[SandRat]

I have an idea; the BP should have the Illegals clean up their own mess in Sheriff Joe Maricopa Motel Guest Garb and Gear while they wait to be tossed back across the border still wearing the pink underwear gift from Sheriff Joe.

[JackelopeBreeder]

According to the software on my computer at home (not DTSS), the clean up crews would have to cover 47 miles per week (both sides of the river) just to clean up the San Pedro in the alloted three weeks. This is nothing but political eye-wash.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

So I guess the signs that state "Fine For Littering..." only apply as a penalty to Americans. To illeagals it must mean it's a nice place for litter.