Why don't we see articles about how local vendors are caught with plants
and how the plants are taken back to the hillside they were stripped from?

Hear, hear. Redundant question, though, Al, since you already know the
answer. Um, why aren't illegal aliens (not from your planet, of course,
which is a friendly planet and only wishes to study earthlings) stopped on
their own side of the border??

Asbestos suit back from the cleaners. Donning it now.

Diana