In 1992 or so I rode the train through Mexico from Juarez all the way to Guatemala. About a mile outside of any town the right of way looked like a garbage dump... as the Mexicans on the train just heave their empty bags and food wrappings out the window as the train leaves.
The trees shown in the picture are definitely not mesquite trees.
I can’t remember the exact name of them but it starts with a “w”.
I live in South Texas and believe me....I know what a mesquite tree is.
I remember going to the county landfill (trash dump)several years ago after a particularly windy storm system passed through. The leeward side was a surreal landscape of trees, bushes and brush all with plastic bags trapped in their branches. I wondered at the time how long it would remain like that. I’m not sure exactly when the landscape became free of the bags but eventually it did.