bySelwyn Duke, The New American:
We hear much about the crime, costs, and culture clashes resulting from illegal migration. But one consequence is generally overlooked: the environmental destruction wrought by the millions of illegal aliens encouraged to travel to the U.S. by the Harris-Biden open border policy. This destruction is severe, too. Just ask the Indians living in the remote jungle area known as the Darién Gap.
What’s more, these hapless people aren’t the only victims. Illegals also leave trash in the Arizona desert and start destructive border fires.
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Paradise Lost?
As for the situation in the Darién Gap, which connects Colombia with Panama, the left-wing Guardian reports that the area’s
isolation and formidable reputation has shielded the Indigenous communities who live there from the outside world for centuries.
… Now, however, with half a million people slogging through the rainforest on their way to the US each year, Darién’s Indigenous groups say their ecosystem and way of life are under threat.
“It’s something that we did not expect, as the migration took off from one day to the next and suddenly we found ourselves flooded with trash,” says Yenairo Aji, a community leader, or “noco”, in Nueva Vigía, a village close to the Darién’s northern frontier where about 1,400 Emberá people live. “It’s worrying because we depend on our local ecosystem for everything. It’s our source of life.”
And, now, tragically, it’s a source of anguish — thanks to the immoral Harris-Biden border policy. The Guardian continues:
When it rains, the once pristine stony banks of the Turquesa River in Nueva Vigía are now lined with discarded [drink] cans, T-shirts and plastic food containers, local people report.
Gasoline leaking from the influx of boats and the human waste of the hundreds of thousands who make the journey have poisoned the rivers on which several communities depend, says Tania Chanapi, a community leader in Nuevo Vigía.
The bodies of those who did not survive are often found decaying in the waterways.
“Before, we used the river for everything: drinking, washing our things and bathing. Now we can’t really do any of that because it causes a lot of sickness, like diarrhoea and vomiting,” Chanapi says.
The video below features on-scene reporting on the Gap devastation by RAV-TV host Ben Bergquam.
Truly unbelievable! This goes out to all of the open borders, virtue signaling, environmentalists! You hypocrites and liars! 60,000 tons of garbage, and unknown amount of human feces, flowing out indoor the ocean because of your policies! This is what you did to the Darien Gap… pic.twitter.com/MYM7SR52fH
— Ben Bergquam – Real America’s Voice (RAV-TV) News (@BenBergquam) September 17, 2023
More of Bergquam’s reporting is featured in the footage below. In it you’ll see a corpse, another victim of the Harris-Biden border failures.
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