Your argument is also wrong on many levels: first, the Environmental Legislation of Brazil is robust and probably the most comprehensive in the world; the problem with it is the lack of proper fiscalization and legal hurdles coming from the sluggish machine of the judiciary. Second, our late industrialization had nothing to do with the gradual destruction of Amazonia; the land is not being seized by urban centres nor by industrial complexes, nor anything of the like; neither the land is used to subsistency farming. The ones responsible for expanding the agricultural frontier into the jungle are Big Soy’s farmers, interested in profitting from foreign markets. They push their limits into the traditional cattle pastures, the latter having no alternative then to advance onto rainforest land. The whole process is very simple: take over unclaimed forest patches, cut all the valuable wood to sell, burn the rest to the ground, allow the pasture to grow, raise cattle there for a while, have the lands bought by soy farmers, repeat the process. Strangely enough, this takes place inside our territory by our own people, not by “foreigners” as you implied. Actually, with this comes third: what do you mean by these “fancy people not speaking Portuguese”? Which language do they speak? English? Spanish? Local idioms? Are you trying to link these people to the destruction of the forest? Strangely, you answer your own question about who is destroying the rainforest and they don’t seem to be part of some international conspiracy unless we are allowing foreigners to buy patches of land around here, which is illegal. That being the case, it wouldn’t be a problem to expell these poor foreigners, would it? You bit your own tail on this one.