Illegal Immigration and the Environment

I would like to post a slew of pictures of the littered Arizona border and the other evidence of "destruction of the environment" that I have seen at times on the net. Unfortunately, it seems that I'm not hitting the right search terms today.

Here is one interesting pic that I was able to find (found it here - Coalition Against Illegal Immigration CAII). Can you see where the man is pointing? It says

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"All persons and vehicles must enter the United States at a designated port of entry only. This is NOT a designated port of entry. Any person or vehicle entering at this point is in violation of 19 USC 1459 and or 19 USC 1433 and is subject to a $5,000.00 penalty".

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And then the whole thing is written in Spanish. I can't see the whole sentence before "U.S. Customs Service" (the man's arm is in the way) but the translation of the Spanish is

"All vehicles and merchandise that enter here will be confiscated"

So, according to this, the minimum penalty for illegal border crossing is five grand plus you lose your vehicle and any stuff that you are carrying.

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Now I know they'll never pay the fines but just for fun let's do the math. $5000 times 12 million illegal aliens (conservative estimate) works out to $60,000,000,000.00 - that's sixty billion (yes, with a "b") dollars. So even if only 12 million of all the illegals currently in the country paid the fine, that would go a healthy distance toward off-setting some of the free goods and services that they are receiving, thanks to our tax dollars. Good grief, healthcare and education alone have to be astronomical costs.

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Oh look, I hardly even mentioned the poor 'ole little "environment". Too bad.