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.
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.”
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— Read More: thenewamerican.com
