One of the often unmentioned casualties of the border crisis is the environment. The massive groups of migrants crossing the border leave piles of clothing and trash as they go.
Where are all the ‘green’ Democrats who claim to care about the environment?
The mess is even showing up in people’s yards.
From KFOX News:
Migrants show up at Lower Valley homes, leave behind clothesSome residents who live in El Paso’s Lower Valley near the border highway are concerned after they said migrants started showing up at their homes after crossing into El Paso.People told KFOX14 that piles and piles of clothing and other toiletries were being left behind in an alleyway near people’s backyards.“They’ll leave their wet clothes and then they’ll change into dry clothes, and they usually head west,” said Charlie De La Rosa, whose backyard is just a few hundred feet away from the border wall.De La Rosa has been dealing with the migrants firsthand for several years, but it’s not until recently that the number of migrants showing up near his backyard has gone up.De La Rosa showed KFOX14 the narrow alleyway migrants would go to change.“Some of the most interesting things that I found was an ID from Venezuela, toiletries backpacks full of toothbrushes towels,” said De La Rosa.He says there have even been times when migrants jumped into his backyard.“I haven’t had any problems with thievery or vandalism, but you know it could happen, always be prepared,” he added.After the migrants leave, it’s up to De La Rosa and his neighbors to pick up the pieces.“I would say there was more trash than clothes, but by the time we were done, we had 17 bags full of trash and clothes,” he said.
Take a look at this video from Bill Melugin:
More from the Guardian:
Border residents in Arizona and Texas have observed an increasing number of personal belongings left along the US side of the border wall in the last two years.Usually people leave clothing and sundries, but items such as passports, birth certificates, police reports, and other confidential documents that could be crucial in proving asylum cases have been found abandoned, too.On one trip to the dumpster, Quiroz, director of the AZ-CA Humanitarian Coalition migrant assistance group, came across a navy blue Haitian passport and Cuban passports just lying in the dirt, and he said he can’t begin to fathom why…He has found rosaries, diaper bags, purses, airline ticket stubs and used face masks.
Even the Border Patrol Union is making the point about the left and the environment:
Featured image via Twitter video.
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