Adios, America: The Left's Plan to Turn Our Country into a Third World Hellhole (63 page)

7
.
      
U.S. Government Accountability Office,
Report to Congressional Requesters.

8
.
      
Ibid.

9
.
      
Ibid.

10
.
    
Associated Press, “News in Brief from the San Joaquin Valley,” September 25, 2002.

11
.
    
Adam Burke, “The Public Lands’ Big Cash Crop,”
High Country News
, October 31, 2005,
http://www.hcn.org/issues/309/15867
.

12
.
    
Nick Madigan, “Marijuana Found Thriving in Forests,”
New York Times
, November 16, 2002,
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/16/us/marijuana-found-thriving-in-forests.html
.

13
.
    
David Castellon, “Officials Get Aggressive to Rid Foothills of Pot,”
Tulare (CA) Advance-Register
, September 21, 2005.

14
.
    
Associated Press, “News in Brief from the San Joaquin Valley,” September 25, 2002; Julie Cart, “Park’s Pot Problem Explodes,”
Los Angeles Times
, May 14, 2003,
http://articles.latimes.com/2003/may/14/local/me-pot14
.

15
.
    
Ginger Thompson, “Mexico Leader Presses U.S. to Resolve Migrants’ Issues,”
New York Times
, November 27, 2002,
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/27/world/mexico-leader-presses-us-to-resolve-migrants-issues.html
.

16
.
    
Richard Stana,
Border Security: Additional Actions Needed to Better Ensure a Coordinated Federal Response to Illegal Activity on Federal Lands
(Washington, DC: Government Accountability Office, November 18, 2010), photos at 20–22, available online at
http://books.google.com/books?id=QoddG13hCwQC&pg=PP2&lpg=PP2&dq=BORDER+SECURITY+Additional+Actions+Needed+to+Better+Ensure+a+Coordinated+Federal+Response+to+Illegal+Activity+on+Federal+Lands+november+2010&source=bl&ots=bb2Nu1yHfI&sig=2GOQkuHTxHvqPzpXFHNR79W_8lU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=-G9mVPSTEIudgwSuyIOABw&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=monument&f=false
. (“In our November 2010 report, we reported that BLM officials posted warning signs at 11 entrance locations of the Sonoran Desert National Monument to warn the public against travel on portions of the monument because of potential encounters with illegal border crossers.”)

17
.
    
See Jodi Peterson, “After 11 Years, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument Reopens,”
High Country News
, September 17, 2014,
http://www.hcn.org/articles/after-12-years-organ-pipe-national-monument-reopens
.

18
.
    
Stana,
Border Security
. (“In our November 2010 report, we reported that BLM officials posted warning signs at 11 entrance locations of the Sonoran Desert National Monument to warn the public against travel on portions of the monument because of potential encounters with illegal border crossers.”)

19
.
    
See, e.g., ibid.; John Ritter, “Drug Agents Can’t Keep Up with Pot Growers,”
USA Today
, October 13, 2005,
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-10-12-pot-growers-cover_x.htm
; and Burke, “The Public Lands’ Big Cash Crop.”

20
.
    
See, e.g., Burke, “The Public Lands’ Big Cash Crop.”

21
.
    
Victor A. Patton, “High Times Ahead? Marijuana Number One Illegal Crop in Merced County,”
Merced (CA) Sun-Star
, August 11, 2007,
http://www.mercedsunstar.com/incoming/article3251353.html
(quoting Neil Compston, task force commander of the Merced Multi-Agency Narcotics Task Force).

22
.
    
Ritter, “Drug Agents Can’t Keep Up with Pot Growers.”

23
.
    
Madigan, “Marijuana Found Thriving in Forests.”

24
.
    
Julie Scelfo, “Five Beginners’ Steps to a Greener Home,”
New York Times
, March 11, 2009,
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/12/garden/12greenhome.html?_r=0
.

25
.
    
Zusha Elinson, “Budget Cuts Endanger State’s Marijuana Eradication Program,”
New York Times
, July 29, 2011, page A17, available online at
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/29/us/29bccamp.html?pagewanted=all&gwh=F19F5AD64AC492D28C2BD1AEAFA1211D&gwt=pay
. This was the only additional article that came up on the topic, in various Nexis
searches of the
New York Times
, such as: “national park and (marijuana or pot) w/s (grow! or garden! or farm! or plant!)”; and “(mexic! or cartel) and “national park and (pot or marijuana) w/s (grow! or garden!)” for the past twenty years.

26
.
    
Sean Garmire, “Pot Farms Busted on State, Federal Land,”
Eureka (CA) Times Standard
, September 13, 2008.

27
.
    
Beth Greenfield, “Land of the Giants,”
New York Times
, September 19, 2008,
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/travel/escapes/19mile.html
.

28
.
    
Madigan, “Marijuana Found Thriving.”

29
.
    
Tim Bragg, “Shots Fired at National Park Rangers in Pot Raid,”
Fresno (CA) Bee
, August 9, 2007

30
.
    
Cart, “Park’s Pot Problem.”

31
.
    
Ginger Thompson, “Where Butterflies Rest, Damage Runs Rampant,”
New York Times
, June 2, 2004,
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/02/international/americas/02butt.html
.

32
.
    
Ibid.

33
.
    
Andres Castillo and Walyce Almeida, “Case Study: Eco-Journalism and Cleaning Up Sumidero’s Canyon,” Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change, 2013,
http://www.salzburg.umd.edu/print/lessons/eco-journalism
.

34
.
    
See, e.g., a few recent travel blogs—with photos: Rebecca Pokoro, “Exploring the Sumidero Canyon,”
The Girl and Globe
(blog), June 29, 2014,
http://thegirlandglobe.com/sumidero-canyon/
(with pictures); Monica Rodriguez, “2014 Sumidero Canyon, Mexico,”
Monica in the World
(blog), April 14, 2012,
http://monicaerodriguez.wordpress.com/2014/04/05/2014-sumidero-canyon-mexico/
; Dany, “Sumidero Canyon: The Good, No bad, but Some Ugly,”
Globetrotter Girls
(blog), September 7, 2010,
http://globetrottergirls.com/2010/09/sumidero-canyon-good-no-bad-some-ugly/
(after detailing the garbage, this travel blogger added: “Anyway—I hope Mexico is on your list of countries to visit. . . . It’s an amazing country, and so diverse.”).

35
.
    
Dudley Althaus, “Litter Choking Streets throughout Mexico,”
Houston (TX) Chronicle
, June 25, 2007,
http://www.chron.com/news/nation-world/article/Litter-choking-streets-throughout-Mexico-1824829.php
.

36
.
    
“Video: Tulum’s Dirty Beaches,” CoastalCare.org, January 25, 2011,
http://coastalcare.org/2011/01/tulums-dirty-beaches/
.

37
.
    
Althaus, “Litter Choking Streets throughout Mexico.”

38
.
    
Ibid.

39
.
    
Ibid.

40
.
    
Ibid.

41
.
    
Ibid.

42
.
    
Seth Mydans, “U.S. and Mexico Take On a Joint Burden: Sewage,”
New York Times
, August 22, 1990,
http://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/22/us/us-and-mexico-take-on-a-joint-burden-sewage.html
.

43
.
    
“South Bay International Wastewater Treatment Plant (SBIWTP),”
Recovery.gov
,
http://www.ibwc.state.gov/mission_operations/sbiwtp.html
.

44
.
    
“Angeles Trashed over Labor Day,”
Modern Hiker
(blog), September 8, 2011,
http://modernhiker.com/2011/09/08/angeles-trashed-over-labor-day/
.

45
.
    
Brigid Schulte, “Wheaton Neighborhood Is the Face of Montgomery’s Shift to Majority Minority,”
Washington Post
, February 15, 2011,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/14/AR2011021404044.html
.

46
.
    
Ibid.

47
.
    
“Who Cleans Up after the Party?,” letter to the editor,
Desert Sun
(Palm Springs, CA), September 30, 2010.

48
.
    
“Mapping L.A.: Vermont Square,” Comments Section,
Los Angeles Times
, 2009–2012, available at
http://maps.latimes.com/neighborhoods/neighborhood/vermont-square/comments/
.

49
.
    
Ibid.

50
.
    
Victor Zuniga and Ruben Hernandez-Leon, eds.,
New Destinations: Mexican Immigration in the United States
(New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2005), 205.

51
.
    
Wcross, “Is Litter an Issue in Your Area?,” Democratic Underground, February 6, 2005,
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=268x242
.

52
.
    
Maria Cramer, “Mime Plan’s Language Draws Offense,”
Boston Globe
, May 3, 2005,
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/05/03/mime_plans_language_draws_offense?pg=full
.

53
.
    
Jorge Trevino, who runs an anti-littering campaign in Mexico, said: “If you throw trash on the highway here in Mexico, no one says anything.” Althaus, “Litter Choking Streets.”

54
.
    
Alejandra Lopez, “Demographics of California Counties: A Comparison of 1980, 1990, and 2000 Census Data,” Stanford University, Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, June 2002,
http://web.stanford.edu/dept/csre/reports/report_9.pdf
. (San Bernardino County in 1980: 82.4 percent white, 18.5 Hispanic; Riverside County in 1980: 82.1 percent white, 18.9 percent Hispanic).

55
.
    
“State andCounty QuickFacts: San Bernardino,” U.S. Census Bureau,
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/06/06071.html
.

56
.
    
“State and County QuickFacts: Riverside, CA,” U.S. Census Bureau,
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/06/06065.html
.

57
.
    
“Joshua Tree National Park Graffiti Prompts Closure of Rattlesnake Canyon Area,” Huffington Post, April 12, 2013,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/12/joshua-tree-national-park-graffiti_n_3070310.html
.

58
.
    
“California—Race and Hispanic Origin for Selected Large Cities and Other Places: Earliest Census to 1990,” U.S. Census Bureau,
http://www.census.gov/population/www/documentation/twps0076/CAtab.pdf
.

59
.
    
“Rancho Cucamonga (City), California,” U.S. Census Bureau,
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/06/0659451.html

60
.
    
“Graffiti Vandals Deface California’s Scenic Sapphire Falls,”
USA Today
, June 23, 2013,
http://www.usatoday.com/picture-gallery/news/2013/06/25/graffiti-vandals-deface-californias-scenic-sapphire-falls/2455089/?AID=10709313&PID=6147661&SID=11i8nm3i8urp1
; see also “Bitches Love the Bees,” Flickr,
http://www.flickr.com/photos/60811444@N05/8538200224
; and David McNew, “Vandals Target Los Angeles Area National Forests,” Getty Images, June 24, 2013,
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/rocks-and-cliffs-are-covered-with-graffiti-near-sapphire-news-photo/171415503
.

61
.
    
Neil Nisperos, “U.S. Forest Service to Close Cucamonga Canyon,”
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
, August 22, 2013,
http://www.dailybulletin.com/general-news/20130822/us-forest-service-to-close-cucamonga-canyon
.

62
.
    
“Cucamonga Canyon Closure Update,” City of Rancho Cucamonga, no date,
http://www.cityofrc.com/news/displayarchive.asp?Type=1&targetID=5
.

63
.
    
Ibid.

64
.
    
“Sapphire Falls Trail, Reviews,”
AllTrails.com
,
http://alltrails.com/trail/us/california/sapphire-falls
.

65
.
    
“Official Sierra Club Population Policy,”
SUSPS.org
,
http://www.susps.org/history/scpolicy.html
.

66
.
    
Ibid.

67
.
    
Kenneth R. Weiss, “The Man behind the Land,”
Los Angeles Times
, October 27, 2004,
http://articles.latimes.com/2004/oct/27/local/me-donor27
.

68
.
    
See Matt Kettmann, “It’s Not Easy Being Green,”
Santa Barbara (CA) Independent
, March 11, 2004,
http://media.independent.com/pdf/matt_k/sierracover.pdf
.