The Staggering Environmental Damage Caused By Biden's Border Crisis

EAGLE PASS, TEXAS — It seems every time I go to the southern border, the long-existing problems continue to reach new heights in their severity. One of the main things that stood out to me during my trip to Eagle Pass this week was the amount of garbage along the U.S. side of the Rio Grande.

I have seen fairly large garbage piles along the border in Texas and Arizona during these past few years, but in Eagle Pass, garbage piles have become garbage fields.

So why does this happen? Illegal immigrants get extra sets of clothing in Mexico, either from stores or shelters, and when they make it to the U.S. side of the river, they discard their wet clothes and change into a new set so they are dry while they wait to be processed by Border Patrol or so they’re not wet as they try to avoid apprehension in the thick Texas brush.

Locals in Piedras Negras, Mexico have started to make money by crossing illegally to get to the large piles to gather them up in big garbage bags, cross back into Mexico, wash them, and then resell them to the next round of illegal immigrants.

In terms of cleanup from U.S.-based efforts, it is very minimal and depends on location.