"After three years of cleanups, the federal government has achieved no better
than a 1 percent solution for the problem of trash left in southern Arizona by
illegal border-crossers.
Cleanup crews from various agencies, volunteer
groups and the Tohono O'odham Nation hauled about 250,000 pounds of trash from
thousands of acres of federal, state and private land across southern Arizona
from 2002 to 2005, says the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.
But that's only
a fraction of the nearly 25 million pounds of trash thought to be out there."
There are a number of reasons that this border issue needs to be resolved. Immigrants traveling across the desert and leaving tons of garbage is only one of the problems that results. While it is a problem that doesn't get as much attention it is a threat to the habit of the border region and the animals that live along the border.
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