Story: Migrants' trash in Southern Arizona offers glimpse of history
- Since 2009, different groups of students from across the country and even Canada have been traveling through the Sonoran Desert to study unauthorized migration using archaeological and anthropological methods.
- The project has collected and cataloged more than 10,000 artifacts left along the way by those trekking the desert.
- The other half is spent talking to border crossers staying in the migrant shelters in Nogales, Sonora, or getting ready for their journey in the town of Altar, Sonora.
BORDER RANCHER RESPONSE TO STORY: ..This "trash" has damaged our land or killed our cattle.....caused fires and pollutes water.
No one points out that land owners suffer the damage and loss or damage to their personal history by illegals camping on private property. See how the spin works? I can remember when they would leave trash, then the Border Patrol was picking it up in some areas and that got stopped. Then the Border Patrol made the illegals pick up their stuff and that got stopped in some areas, otherwise, the students could not be going out and researching the trash if it was picked up..so in some areas maybe it is...and in some areas it is not picked up
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We have had different groups picking up trash;ranchers pick it up as well as hunting groups and others. But the trash gets so massive, they just do what they can handle and in some cases it is dangerous with threat of needle pricks and you can ge hepatitis very easy. So it's all in how to "put lipstick on a pig."
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