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I just read something really intresting, and really distrubing that puts a new look on the whole illegal immigration fight that is going on in the US, becasue it is a persepctive that no one is talking about probaly becasue no one as taken the time to think about it or consider it. That is the effects on the enviroment that the struggle between illegal immigrants trying to cross the border, and the border patrol trying to apperehend them.
An overlooked casualty of recent immigration policy is the fragile ecosystem of the U.S.-Mexican border. Endangerd species like the Sonoran pronghorn are threathend by thousands of illegal imigrants chased by four-wheeling border agents, treking through protected lands. Border policy has pushed illegals out of urban areas and into sensetive desert ecosystems like Arizona's Buenos Aries National Wildlife Refuge, which as become chocked with trash dsicarded by migrants and rutted off -road vehichles.
That is bad new for the pronghorn, considered the world's secound fastest land mammal. Populations hof the shy antelope has plummeted by nearly 80% in the recent years. Enviromentalist note, but that is about all they can do. Recent antiterroist last exempt the Department of Homeland Security from virtually all laws, including envriomental legislation, leaving the question open, wheather there will be a border left to defend.
3:32 PM - 6/15/2007 -
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