Adios, America: The Left's Plan to Turn Our Country into a Third World Hellhole (37 page)

DUMPING POLLUTANTS BY THE WORLD’S TALLEST TREE

In 2008, the National Park Service arrested five illegal aliens who had commandeered several acres of land in the Redwood National Park for a pot farm
within six miles of the world’s tallest tree.
The Mexicans had dumped pesticides, fertilizer, and trash in the middle of this international landmark, doing untold damage to the forest.
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Three of the five illegal aliens arrested at the site had already been deported once.

Like something out of
Pravda
, the
New York Times
not only neglected to report on the illegal aliens’ desecration of a redwood forest, but ten days after the pot farm was discovered, prattled about “dreadlocked hippies” in houses near Redwood National Park, “where marijuana is covertly grown.”
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In the Soviet era, the only way Russians knew there had been a plane crash was that the Soviet press would suddenly be bristling with stories about American air disasters. Today, the only way for
Times
readers to know that Mexican illegal aliens are dumping pollutants next to
irreplaceable sequoia trees is by reading about hippies with indoor grow-lights near a redwood forest.

The Mexican assault on America’s national parks goes well beyond what is absolutely necessary to cultivate marijuana crops. Reporters who have visited the sites gape in horror at the trash illegal aliens have left behind. Amid the plethora of two (2)
New York Times
stories on the pot farms, one said that law enforcement officers have found “elaborate tree-houses, makeshift showers and, invariably, trash and pesticides, much of which ends up in streams and creeks.”
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The
Fresno Bee
reported that the illegal immigrants leave behind “tons of trash” in addition to poaching deer and other park animals.
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The
Los Angeles Times
said of one camp: “Trash was strewn everywhere—empty cans, torn packets of noodles, a crusty leather rifle scabbard. A soggy sleeping bag was stuffed behind a tree.” The chief law enforcement officer at Sequoia National Park swept his hand toward the piles of trash, saying, “Nice, eh? Welcome to your national park.”
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LOOK AT MEXICO’S NATIONAL PARKS TO SEE OUR FUTURE

For a glimpse into America’s future, consider how Mexicans treat their own environment. In Mexico’s most famous national park, a ten-thousand-year-old evergreen forest designated by presidential decree as a biosphere reserve, illegal loggers chop down about seventy mature trees a day, or “a small forest a week,” according to the
New York Times
.
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While environmentalists from around the world send millions of dollars to Mexico to preserve the forest, local peasants indignantly announce that the land belongs to them and slaughter the trees.

Marijuana growers set fire to old-growth pine forests in Sierra Tarahumara, destroying two-hundred-year-old trees, simply to clear areas for growing pot. Sometimes, the locals burn huge swaths of the forest out of pique with the government. Mexican authorities are helpless against these
crusading peasants, who attack officers, set fire to police cars, and storm prisons to free illegal loggers.
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Sending their poorest, most backward people to the United States is obviously a big help to Mexico, but it’s pretty rough on America’s landscape. The sheer numbers of immigrants tromping into the United States can’t help but to harm our wilderness areas. That’s why the largest anti-immigration group is called “
Numbers
USA,” not “Hispanics Litter and Scorch the Earth.” But it is also a fact that the vast majority of the Teddy Kennedy immigrants come from peasant cultures that have no concept “litter.”

In 2005, the Sumidero Canyon in Chiapas, Mexico, was so jammed with garbage that it became a cause célèbre for environmentalists. In the first few days of cleanup, thirty tons of garbage were removed from the eight-mile canyon.
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Then ten years later, the river was completely clogged again, full of plastic bottles, bags, Styrofoam cups, and plates.
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As one Mexican environmentalist said, “[I]t’s a war without end.”
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Lucy Gallagher of Mexiconservacion explained in an online video that “people actually just dump the garbage on the beach.” Pointing to beer bottles, syringes, shoes, and soap carpeting the beach around her, she said, “[P]retty much anything that you can find in your house waste will be on this beach.”
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After ritualistically noting that “[n]ot every Mexican litters,” the
Houston Chronicle
said that Mexico is “choking on its refuse.” Mexico City is flooded after every major rainfall because bottles and trash clog the storm drains: “Soft drink bottles, snack wrappers, used diapers and cigarette butts clog city streets, rural highways and scenic beaches. Mountains of garbage stand sentry-like in empty lots and at the edges of bucolic rural villages. Discarded plastic bags hang in trees and dangle from cactus like bitter industrial fruit.”
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Mexicans “tuck pop bottles into hedges, trees and lampposts. Schoolchildren drop snack packages wherever they please. Drivers of intercity buses instruct passengers to toss refuse out the windows rather than leave it aboard.”
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There are periodic outbreaks of dengue fever on account of the mosquitoes clustering around trash dumped on the roads.
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The
Chronicle
was quick to point out that it wasn’t Mexicans’ fault that they littered: It was the fault of a “deeply entrenched political system.”
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(My money had been on systemic racism.) The logic is murky, but it has something to do with the system discouraging “citizen input,” forcing Mexicans to throw their trash on the ground.
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For decades, Mexican refuse ended up on San Diego’s world-famous beaches by way of the Tijuana River. The “pungent flow, with its brown froth and floating bits of plastic,” carried excrement from Tijuana through eight miles of rural California before landing on Southern California beaches. Border agents avoided the river, not only because of the smell, but because it “melts the wax off your boots if you step in it,” as one agent told the
New York Times
. This blight on California’s beaches reached a crisis point in the 1990s. One solution would have been for Mexicans to stop throwing their garbage in the river. But as San Diego County Supervisor Brian P. Bilbray said, it wasn’t like dealing with Canada. “This is where the first world and the third world meet.”
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Instead, U.S. taxpayers funded a sewage treatment plant on the border at a cost of $239.4 million. Mexico chipped in $17 million.
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THE MEXICAN LITTERING HABIT

The Mexican cultural trait of littering is well known to everyone, except American journalists. With the rigid circling of wagons by the elites as impenetrable as ever, the truth about the rampant littering problem of Mexican immigrants mostly slips out in the nontraditional media. The comments sections of hiking blogs are a hotbed of unfiltered reporting. After Labor Day weekend in 2011, one hikers’ blog wailed: “KCAL reports that in one canyon alone (they never mention which one, but it certainly looks like the East Fork of the San Gabriel River in the accompanying video) had upwards of 30,000 pounds of trash left in it over the long weekend. THIRTY. THOUSAND. POUNDS.”

The comments thread was more specific:

          
PISSED OFF HIKER says:

              
September 12, 2011 at 6:42 pm

              
Maybe they should lower the price of water in LA county so the Mexicans could take a shower at home and wouldn’t have to have bath day in the river.

          
JANETTE P. says:

              
September 13, 2011 at 3:58 pm

              
I noticed the comment about the Mexicans, sadly, this is more than likely true. My extended family is Mexican so I know how most of them are and the outskirts of Angeles is full of Hispanic people. I went last week just to sit next to the river that runs through the canyons and I wanted to shoot the people who left their crap there—red cups, abandoned sandals, plastic bags—immediately I gathered what I could and brought it up to a huge green trash bin they had there. They ACTUALLY HAD a huge trash bin. I don’t understand the laziness of people. Earth is so beautiful and I hate that people don’t take the responsibility to keep it that way as much as possible.
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It’s not just America’s national parks that are being destroyed, but its neighborhoods. After suburban Wheaton, Maryland, flipped from majority white to majority Hispanic, the
Washington Post
reports, “[t]he grassy medians often got treated as dumps, collecting beer bottles, dirty diapers and fast-food trash that longtime residents still spend their weekends picking up.”
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Established residents, the
Post
reported—while absolutely not prejudiced and, in fact, delighted by their colorful neighbors—were, however, “bothered by litter, cars parked on lawns, graffiti and a rash of auto break-ins.” Thus, local Ed Williford complimented the “beautiful things” Hispanics do to their houses and rushed to assure the
Post
that “we don’t mind the Hispanics. We’re not prejudiced.” His complaint was with the ones “who leave the trash—they have no respect.” His wife elaborated,
saying, “Some leave loads and loads of beer bottles and trash. I think people get frustrated when they see that. That’s not the way we like to live.”
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It’s not the way Washington lobbyists like to live either, but they don’t live in Wheaton. Their maids do.

In tony Palm Springs, a letter to the editor of the
Desert Sun
complained about vandalism in a local park after Mexican Independence Day. “Exercise equipment, landscape boulders, memorial plaques, utility buildings and tennis court signs,” the resident wrote, “are all covered with green spray paint proudly displaying the ‘tag’ of some individual who must now feel very proud of this accomplishment.”
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Similarly, in a
Los Angeles Times
Neighborhood Report on once majority-black Vermont Square in South LA, the comments section consisted mostly of black residents complaining about the littering of their new Hispanic neighbors. Endorsing another commenter’s remark that the neighborhood looked like Tijuana, “Stoney” said, “I work around many different ethnicities” and “Mexicans just do not clean up after themselves. It is as if they have never thrown a piece of trash away in their lives. They just leave it all on the ground.”
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One longtime black resident, Audrey, said: “Trash in the street is an ugly sight. . . . Adults with children mimicking [them] seem to see no problem with their childish actions.”
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A book about Mexican immigration published by the Russell Sage Foundation disputed the notion that blacks resent Mexican immigrants for taking their jobs, saying that actually what they resented was the “litter, public hygiene, drinking outdoors and noisiness.”
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Do you see a pattern developing?

Even a post on the Democratic Underground website reported (spelling and capitalization as in the original):

          
There is at least one new beer can or bottle a day thrown out on the area I try to keep clean. Fast food debris are a close second and the final straw was having to pick up a “loaded” diaper last week.

              
Other property owners have given up trying to keep ahead of the stuff, the roadside looks like some third world country.

              
I believe a large percentage of the litter is coming from newly arrived people from south of the border. If anyone has been to Mexico (outside of the tourist areas), you know why I suspect that they may be part of the problem. We have a large Central American population that are drawn here to work on the farms and a large tyson chicken plant that employes many immigrants. I have no problem with people coming here to improve their lives. I do have a problem with people that reduce the quality of MY life.

In reply, one Democratic Underground commenter said: “When I lived in Mexico, we referred to the white plastic bag as the ‘Mexican National Flower,’ and that was probably being kind. Last year when I spent some time in Ireland, I never saw any litter at all . . . anywhere.”
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(You know what else you didn’t see in Ireland? Mexicans.)

Unless we’re witnessing a mass psychosis—
let’s all get together and smear an innocent ethnic group
—Hispanics are prodigious litterers. Even other Hispanics notice! In 2005, a Latino group in Boston put together a program to teach fellow Hispanics to stop littering, using street mimes to communicate beyond the language barrier. When a draft of their proposal leaked, there was shock, hurt, and, of course, outrage—and not just the usual outrage associated with anything having to do with mimes. Colombian immigrant Diego Luis Peña demanded an apology for the Hispanic-run anti-littering campaign, saying, “People are very hurt.” Local resident Jose Ortiz said that the anti-littering campaign “caused a lot of pain.”
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Inasmuch as the rules of political correctness require that no one notice anything negative about Hispanic culture, maybe we should consider admitting only those immigrants we’re allowed to criticize, like Germans. How can any immigrant assimilate if Americans refuse to mention their little cultural annoyances, such as littering, drunk driving,
and child rape? The Irish would still be filling up the paddy wagons if America had treated them with such kid gloves. (Remember the good old days when the
Irish
were our biggest problem?) The
Houston Chronicle
explained that Mexicans throw trash on the ground because, in Mexico, no one tells them not to.
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Unfortunately, no one tells them not to in the United States, either—provided the person doing the littering is slightly darker than Joe Pesci.