Last Week, Rebel News reporter Juan Mendoza Diaz visited Eagle Pass, Texas, an area so popular among illegal migrants to have earned it the nickname “Illegal Pass.” Eagle Pass is in the Del Rio border sector, the busiest part of the border with Mexico, where thousands cross daily.
While awaiting U.S. government transportation to their new homes, the new “Americans” dump an enormous amount of cast-off clothing and trash onto the ground, creating a border-long ecological disaster.
Mendoza Diaz posted to Twitter a short video of the scene at Eagle Pass. It is not a pretty sight.
The environmental damage done to our Southwest is nearly incalculable. A report by CIS.org in 2018 cited statistics from Arizona showing that at least 2,000 tons of trash are deposited in that state every year by illegal migrants. A letter last year from members of the House Committee on Natural Resources cited estimates that each border crosser leaves “approximately six to eight pounds of trash in the desert during their journey.” They add:
[B]etween 2007 and 2018, 460,000 pounds of trash discarded by illegal migrants were collected along the 370 miles of the Arizona-Mexico border. [Emphasis added.] The trash left behind by illegal migrants includes human waste, backpacks, medical products, plastic, vehicles, and clothing, all of which pose risks to wildlife.
The letter was sent March 18, 2021, to DHS Secretary Mayorkas, asking for a detailed response by April 1. To date, the response has been to admit another million migrants to the U.S. population. Ideology trumps all, even the “Environment” the Left claims to love so dearly.
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