News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Monday, December 04, 2006

Maricopa inmates to clean up border crossers' garbage

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

PHOENIX — Several hundred Maricopa County jail inmates will be cleaning up trash left behind at campsites set up by illegal immigrants trekking through desert areas of metropolitan Phoenix.

County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said the desert trash pickup is a new phase in his fight against illegal immigration and an effort to improve the environment at the same time.

The cleanup will occur monthly.

"These people are coming here illegally. They're breaking the law, and they're destroying our desert," Arpaio said. "It's disgusting."

Deputies have been coming across campsites and snapping photos of the filth since Arpaio's anti-human-smuggling unit began looking for and arresting illegal immigrants in March.

So far, 351 illegal immigrants have been jailed, and Arpaio said their mess needs to be cleaned up.

posted by missionaryman | 12:29 PM

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