Illegal Immigrants Leave Tons of Cash in Arizona Desert

For those treasure hunters who have grown bored with the standard beach combing fare, there now is a new frontier for treasure hunting. Per the Arizona Star:

Authorities estimate the 3.2 million-plus entrants caught by the Border Patrol dropped that much garbage in the Southern Arizona desert from July 1999 through June 2005. The figure assumes that each illegal entrant discards 8 pounds of trash, the weight of some abandoned backpacks found in the desert..................

Oh, never mind that was "trash" not "cash"..............Even if it was cash, I'm not sure it would be worth the price required in the search:

Most of the garbage is left at areas where entrants wait to be picked up by smugglers. The accumulation of disintegrating toilet paper, human feces and rotting food is a health and safety issue for residents of these areas and visitors to public lands, a new BLM report says...................

Back to the beach, that metal detector and a cold beverage...........