Posted on 05/24/2010 4:22:10 AM PDT by cowpoke
Check out this video to see what is happening on our border with Mexico. Wilderness areas and Wildlife Refuges are being trashed by human and drug traffickers. Why? Because the Border Patrol can't take vehicles into these areas.
Watched the video. TOTALLY DISGUSTING. This problem is WAY out of control.
Can you believe all the trash and resource damage? They keep the Border Patrol out because of the “environmental damage” they cause. ha.
Forget the economic depression, foreign wars, Taliban, American national politics....etc.
What you have here is the perfect storm preconditions for typhus.
Mark my words.
All you have to do is go to most border towns in May-hee-ko (if you dare) to see the same thing. It’s cultural, don’t ya know: the Aztecs built their pyramids on top of trash piles. Our “environmentalists” are deeply upset about it. Not upset enough to insist that the Feds crack down on illegal immigration, mind you. Lefties gotta have their priorities.
It should be enough to bring the environmentalists to our side.
SECURE THE SOUTHERN BORDER NOW!
I love the desert southwest. This sucks. My next vacation I may just head to Tucson and go do some volunteer cleanup.
Illegals = good
Border Patrol cars = BAD !!!!!!!!!!
It's not. It never has been.
The enviros like wilderness, and the Wilderness Act is what prohibits motorized vehicles.
Ya know...the EPA jack boots would be all over AMERICANS doing this .....
I think that illegals who are captured should be taken there to pick up their share of garbage before they are shipped back across the border.
If you decide to go, make sure you wear a hazmat suit, that is dangerous stuff. It is littered with human feces and other body wastes.
I lived in a toney suburb of Mexico City while assigned to the Embassy in 91-93. I could sit on my patio and have a cup of coffee and look out across a valley. There was a barrio atop the cliff there. I regularly saw a garbage truck back up to the edge of the cliff and drop its load down into the valley. There were a lot of plastic bags, but an awful lot of loose garbage as well. It was beyond me how the Mexicans were able to avoid major outbreaks of diseases emanating from those garbage dumps.
However the Feds/State wildlife folks have no problem closing off the backroads/old logger roads because ATVs are damaging the plants in areas of the PNW.
I dont even know if they allow walk ins.
Americans cant access American soil for hunting/fishing ect...
I read an article with comments about Mt. Saint Helens that the govt wants to throw tons of money to make that a State Park.
People in the comment section were reallly ticked...
State of Washington can’t pay its bills but wants to spend tons of money to keep the Mt. a place for scientists to observe and the Amreican citizens out of.
They build up an immunity to it, unfortunately, we do not have the same immunity. One of the worst things about the illegals coming across the border is the disease they bring with them. A few years ago I caught a lung infection that the doctor said was a superbug from Mexico, he saw a lot of it. I almost died.
They also want to keep the wilderness pristine.
Glad to hear you survived. Maybe everyone along our border should start wearing surgical masks and gloves.
Yes, but it would take an amendment to the Wilderness Act to let the border patrol in, and they don’t want to set that precedent.
The Wilderness Act states “there shall be no temporary road, no use of motor vehicles, motorized equipment or motorboats, no landing of aircraft, no other form of mechanical transport, and no structure or installation within any such area.”
The idea of no vehicular access was to keep the areas clean and uncluttered. It that video gets around they might decide an amendment (applying to the border areas) would be acceptable.
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