Illegal Immigrants Not Very Eco-Friendly

In yet another argument for a tough border fence:

After three years of cleanups, the federal government has achieved no better than a 1 percent solution for the problem of trash left in Southern Arizona by illegal border-crossers.

Cleanup crews from various agencies, volunteer groups and the Tohono O'odham Nation hauled about 250,000 pounds of trash from thousands of acres of federal, state and private land across Southern Arizona in 2002 to 2005, says the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.

But that's only a fraction of the nearly 25 million pounds of trash thought to be out there.

Maybe some of those "human rights" organizations that demand that we put drinking fountains in the middle of the desert for all those illegal crossers can spring for a few trash cans.