Ensuring a Balanced Future of Immigrants To and From the U.S.-Mexico Border; What are We Going to do About All Those Pigs?

There are two waves of stories unfolding simultaneously, which sheds exposure to the potential status of immigration from and to the border of the United States and Mexico.

Toward the forefront, has been crackdown on Latino immigrants, in southern U.S. towns of Alabama.
If I may, interject a few points; one, Latinos are not the only immigrants, that are making an increased presence in the big cities of Alabama.  Protesting by immigrants in Montgomery, Alabama, a place that houses critical U.S. historical data, has made headline news in recent weeks.  Two, if Latino immigrants are being cracked down, there is a call for commensurate crackdown on cheap labor, and abuse of minors, in context, especially Latino children, and those with not much to defend themselves, that are working in horrid environments that are everything shy of the black market.

There are numerous news stories about 'trafficked' Latino and Mexican women and children, being 'vanned' up and down the U.S., against their will, at the threat of violence, taken and shipped from the advertised occupation of maid, or indoor nurse assistant, under the guise of gambits.

Games on the prima fascia, both sides of the table cloth on the table need to be clean in order to bundle up the entire tablecloth and keep the table clean.

Now to the pigs.  Mexico is planning to exterminate some 50,000 boars, or feral pigs ASAP.  These pigs have evidently, been sneaking into Mexico at night to graze on farmland, then going back to the U.S. side during the day.

"The Ministry of Environment in Chihauha state said some 1,500 hectares (3,700 acres) of farmland in the border town of Ojinaga have been affected by the large number of feral pigs that have come from Presidio County, Texas."
story here: http://news.yahoo.com/mexico-cull-50-000-wild-boars-us-invasion-210824962.html

How many of us knew that there even were 50,000 feral pigs in wild, that clustered together, in that region of the U.S.?

Some questions arise, such as, those of us who do not advocate excessive populations of pigs, wouldn't killing these pigs help freshen the air in the area?

On the other hand, the big question is, if and once these pigs are gone, what will take their place, referring to what takes place on those areas of lands and corridors, such as illegal immigration?

What promises and agreements are going to be made, just like promises and agreements need making to balance crackdown on immigration, with mitigation of 'human trafficking', to ensure that another modal, another method of 'approved' trafficking can take place, which facilitates more human trafficking and abuse, does not take place?

In closing, there are probably, and based on experience, rest assured 100% positive, other dimensions to the effects of exterminating 50,000 pigs all at one shot.  For example, how are these pigs going to be exterminated?  Last time thousands of pigs were exterminated, a few years ago that made the news, they were burned, in a distasteful scene.  The cloud that resulted had some impact on the environment.  From a purely environmental air quality standpoint, if you burn that many pigs at one time, in conjunction that the air over Mexico in the city center is viewed by some as could improve in reduction in pollution levels, and, that these pigs area species that there has not been a great deal of experience slaughtering in mass levels, concerns are what kind of chemical mixtures are going to be in the atmosphere, air which can be immediately breathed by humans?  Some of these answers are unknown, until it is done.  This is not an area for experimentation.  This is not a save the pigs campaign.  This is an alert that certain amount of common sense and science know-how needs to coalesce and be integrated into the decision that might be about to happen.

The Ministry of Environment of Mexico being the authority who they are, not to step-out-of-line, but what say has the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency had in all this?  Not to stump the efforts of Mexico to keep their farms clean, it is that there are experienced officials in the EPA that might be able to point out factors and elements of the process and impact of what they are about to do, which could help benefit and prevent disastrous outcomes that effect both Mexico and the United States.

Supplemental background, added November 21, 2011.

As we speak, there are at least 2 methodologies in place that are being used by the U.S., markedly the State of Texas, to 'mitigate' the feral pig population.  One is the use of helicopters, and shoot at the pigs.  It is not an inexpensive operation, as one provider requisites a few hundred dollars just for the safety course, and over $400 an hour to use the helicopters for the shoot.  This also gives an idea, how much havoc the feral pigs are rendering on lands not just in Mexico, but also in the U.S., the monetary toll is huge.
There are other methods, such as the use of dogs, for control, moving the pigs away from valued areas.

Just as a matter of biological knowledge, the size of the boars, can be as large and heavy as a cow, small horse, or bear, in the ranges of 900 pounds plus.  Nevermind extreme cases, where you have the prized head of the community, that would not be shocking to find a male boar in excess of over 1000 pounds.  These animals are not to be taken as light contenders.

Another dynamic to the situation, is that there is reputed to be 2 million, or more pigs in the area; the 50,000 spoken of by Mexico, is just a fraction, of a growing population.
[factual information about the feral pigs, such as population and size, are referenced from a site for a company local to Texas that specializes in this animal species control.  For further details, e-mail us]