Illegal Aliens and Littering

My stuff:

• Water bag
• 2 Snickers bars
• hat
• extra shirt
• GPS unit
• 1^st aid kit

• Three bottles, formerly full of Mexican water
• One pair Mexican shoes (formal)
• Abandoned Mexican sweatshirt
• One plastic Mexican orange-juice bottle, empty
• Assorted wrappers for Mexican chips and crackers
• Several plastic bags
• Miscellaneous unidentified garbage, with labeling in Spanish

Illegal aliens routinely leave garbage piles laying around southern Arizona. If you hike out here, you will see some of this stuff. Please give us a hand - come prepared to pack it out!

More Garbage:

Garbage in the entrance shaft of an historic hardrock mine near Miller Peak, in the heart of the Miller Peak Wilderness Area. Almost all of the garbage bears Mexican labeling, indicating this is a common overnighting point for illegal aliens and smugglers. Photo courtesy Tim Doyle.

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