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"stvfrmco" <gassasb@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:<4O4Gc.5769$oD3.1369@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net>...
> Washington is allowing our national parks to be destroyed by illegals and
> budget cuts.
> 
> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0%2C2933%2C124637%2C00.html
> 
> 
> The national parks' budget and staffing restraints have been capturing
> public attention in recent years, especially after one young ranger was shot
> and killed in 2002 by drug smugglers crossing the Mexican border into
> Arizona's Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument (search).
> 
> That same year, another ranger was gunned down by a national park visitor on
> Hawaii's Big Island when the ranger asked the man to leash his dog.
> 
> The Organ Pipe Cactus incident was indicative of a larger problem the scenic
> site - identified by the Fraternal Order of Police as the most dangerous
> national park in the U.S. - has been having with rampant border jumping and
> drug smuggling.
> 
> In April 2004 alone more than 200 illegal aliens were arrested as they tried
> to enter the U.S., the northeastern park superintendent said.
> 
> Organ Pipe visitors Helga and Rich Foulk, of Ambler, Pa., found themselves
> right in the thick of the border-crossing phenomenon in April when they
> visited the preserve for the second time in three years. The couple was
> camping in one of the designated areas when the trampling of footsteps woke
> them up about 2 a.m.
> 
> "In the middle of the night, a group of 20 immigrants walked up to our tent.
> Our tent was right in the path of their trail," said Helga Foulk, a
> 32-year-old engineer. "Both of us were very surprised. Once they figured out
> we were tourists, they walked on."
> 
> That same trip, the Foulks were dismayed to find piles of trash that
> appeared to be left from the illegals along the way - thousands of empty
> water bottles, bits of paper, medicine vials, electrolyte packages and other
> garbage.
> 
> The National Park Service says it's particularly worried about the problems
> at the border and is doing what it can to get them under control.

Like a plague of brown locusts the keep coming. Destroying everything
in their path the weak Americans wait for their "gummint" to act. Not
going to happen with the assortment in Washington. And Kerry is just
as worthless as Bush. A pox on both of those cankers.

Tom