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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.

Saturday, January 26, 2008

Pickup targets 5 tons of trash that migrants left along river

SHERYL KORNMAN

Published: 01.25.2008

The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality will help in the removal this weekend of an estimated 5 tons of trash left behind by illegal immigrants along the Santa Cruz River.

Federal park rangers, high school students, Friends of the Santa Cruz River, the Audubon Society's Tucson chapter and other volunteers will join in the cleanup Saturday in the Tubac area.

The state will provide the trash bags and trash containers and move the trash to the Rico Rico landfill.

The plastic water bottles, food containers and other trash dumped by migrants is not only unsightly, it's also a threat to the riparian area, ADEQ director Steve Owens said in a news release.

"Dealing with the problem of illegal dumping is a priority," Owens said.

"Significant waste has accumulated along the Santa Cruz River" near Tubac and Tumacacori National Historic Park, he said.

"The trashing of the desert by border crossers is a huge problem."

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