Trashing Arizona: Illegal Immigrant Waste Dumps (with Pics)

Tucson Weekly ^ | 04/02/2009 | Leo W. Banks

[BuckeyeTexan]

Prowling these border dumps provides the equivalent of a graduate-level seminar on what illegal immigration really is, and as importantly, what it's not.

We know the crossers are a religious bunch, because of the Catholic medallions, statues and Bibles they drop, and we know they're superstitious. The litter almost always includes garlic cloves: Illegals hang them from backpacks in the false belief that the scent will keep rattlesnakes away from their campsites.

Some call illegal aliens "undocumented," but the truth is they have documents falling out of their pockets, literally. Examine the ground, and you'll find driver's licenses, birth certificates and passports, most of them forged.

From the Pokémon backpacks, diapers and infant formula, we know the crossers include children. But their debris is often mixed with tequila bottles and pornography. Another item sure to boil the blood: Spanish-language books advising illegals on their rights in the United States.

Less common—but surprisingly present—is evidence that our border has become an international crossing.

As I've reported previously in these pages, we know Arabs are coming, from the discovery of three prayer rugs near Douglas and an Arabic diary inside a backpack in Hereford.

A while back, I got an e-mail about a pair of Russian night-vision goggles found near Sonoita. Best guess? They were probably left by drug smugglers.

Consider, too, the ugly reality of the rape tree, often found at dump sites. The coyotes who lead groups into the country will sometimes peel a woman out of the group, rape her and hang her panties from a tree as a kind of trophy.

[BuckeyeTexan]

Heavily excerpted. Much more detail and statistics at the link.

[BuckeyeTexan]

See fightinJAG’s post at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2532779/posts

[FlingWingFlyer]

I guess the illegal aliens aren’t into “green” border crossing.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Any comment from the Leftist eco-whacko groups?
(crickets chirping...)

[Clintonfatigued]

Will the environmentalist community speak out against this? Probably not.

[RedMDer]

That needs to be on highway bill boards all across the country.

[EGPWS]

I guess the illegal aliens aren’t into “green” border crossing.

But the "dim's" love them anyway because the illegals are anti-Constitutional law too.

[BuckeyeTexan]

• How much trash has been dropped since this invasion began? Try 24 million pounds, from the Colorado River to the New Mexico line.
• In the sheer numbers of people, this is a historic migration, far bigger than the 1848 California gold rush—and those grubby, gallant, greedy gold rushers also gave this land a good thrashing.
• The litter at Diablito, on state land, was so solid that you could walk a half-mile without your feet touching the sand. In border-speak, the site is called a layup.
• In addition to being in remote areas, these dumpsites are also high-crime zones. After all, drug smugglers often use the same trails as people smugglers. The best routes into our country are bought, and the cartels don't like anyone mucking around on land they've paid good money to control.

[tractorman]

What? No one asking paper or plastic?

[A_perfect_lady]

Wow. This is just... wow.

[Mr. K]

what’s with all the backpacks?

[BuckeyeTexan]

These sites are called “layups” in the coyote business. The illegals hole up at these sites to wait for their rides farther into the U.S. They change from hiking clothes into street clothes and then dump their belongings so they can cram as many illegals as possible into the waiting vehicles.

[RowdyFFC]

Arizonans should take bulldozers and round this krap up and dump it in the middle of the nearest bridge across to Mexico blocking it off until they decide to deal with their own trash and feces!

[sarasmom]

I agree that Floridians should help Arizonions do this.
All of us in the USA should help Arizona.

Are you offering to organize a bunch of people to do this?
If not, why not?

[Oldexpat]

When these sites are so well known..how come their are no BP agents out there every night?

[BuckeyeTexan]

All 11 tons of it per day?

[BuckeyeTexan]

Those willing to volunteer to help pick up trash should call the BLM’s Tucson field office at 258-7200. Those interested in helping ADEQ can call Frank Zadroga, ADEQ’s waste program manager in Tucson, at 628-6951.

I’m hooking up with BLM this fall to go on a clean-up mission.

[antceecee]

Build the wall with their own crap. What a concept.

[HiJinx]

Ping!

Leo Banks is always a wonderful read; although this isn’t a very palatable topic...

[snuffy smiff]

I’d prefer a half-million Claymores but I wasn’t asked...