(Phoenix, Arizona) Yesterday, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio sent 200 county jail inmates into the desert to clean up some of the trash and garbage left by illegal aliens while sneaking into the U.S. An estimated 22 tons were picked up. In one day, mind you. Notably, according to Arpaio, the area cleaned is close to Phoenix and the filth gets much worse the farther one goes into the desert.
Trash along Arizona desert trail (typical)
Now, in my area I could occasionally get away with tossing some candy wrappers out of my car but, sooner or later, someone would see me and I'd be ticketed for littering. For some reason, that's not the case in national forests in the southwest. Literally, thousands upon thousands of people are turning public lands into garbage dumps and toilets and nobody seems to care.
Where is the media on this story? And the do-gooder environmentalists? The Sierra Club? Where are all the animal lovers who fret for endangered species habitats? And, above all, where's that Indian character sadly looking at the fouling of the countryside with a lonesome tear running down his cheek?
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