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Arizona sheriff blames Mexican smugglers for wildfire
PALOMINAS, Ariz (Reuters) – The sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona, said on Tuesday that Mexican drug smugglers are likely to blame for a wildfire that has scorched 27,000 acres and destroyed dozens of homes just north of the U.S.-Mexico border.
The remarks are likely to add to controversy over the origin of recent blazes which saw Arizona Senator John McCain draw criticism for suggesting some of them could have been started by illegal immigrants.
The so-called Monument Fire erupted a week ago in the Coronado National Forest and roared through steep slopes and rugged canyons of the Huachuca Mountains before breaking out into parched ranch lands and populated areas over the weekend.
At least 62 homes and a number of businesses have been gutted, and an estimated 11,000 people were forced to flee at the peak of the fire threat in an area southeast of the town of Sierra Vista, Arizona.
Diminished winds since Monday have helped firefighters make headway against the flames, and by Tuesday ground crews had managed to carve containment lines around 40 percent of the fire's perimeter.
Cochise Sheriff Larry Dever told reporters the fire was "man-caused" and began in an area closed to visitors and known to law enforcement for "high-intensity, drug- and human-trafficking."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110621/us_nm/us_wildfires_arizona_1
I see a double standard by liberals who blame global warming but the EPA, Envoinmentals and Liberals will never blame Mexicans for doing harm. I think governor Brewer should try now get those federal judges fired because of their rulings.Judges dont make ruling by the laws and common sense they make rulings on their own political beliefs. So how can the governmermnt get them removed from the bench? You see Jan Brewer was right,,If these judges didnt hold up all that time these wilfdfires wouldnt happen right now. Its not the Sheriff says this ,,John McCain says the samething.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...es-John-McCain-blames-illegal-immigrants.html
PALOMINAS, Ariz (Reuters) – The sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona, said on Tuesday that Mexican drug smugglers are likely to blame for a wildfire that has scorched 27,000 acres and destroyed dozens of homes just north of the U.S.-Mexico border.
The remarks are likely to add to controversy over the origin of recent blazes which saw Arizona Senator John McCain draw criticism for suggesting some of them could have been started by illegal immigrants.
The so-called Monument Fire erupted a week ago in the Coronado National Forest and roared through steep slopes and rugged canyons of the Huachuca Mountains before breaking out into parched ranch lands and populated areas over the weekend.
At least 62 homes and a number of businesses have been gutted, and an estimated 11,000 people were forced to flee at the peak of the fire threat in an area southeast of the town of Sierra Vista, Arizona.
Diminished winds since Monday have helped firefighters make headway against the flames, and by Tuesday ground crews had managed to carve containment lines around 40 percent of the fire's perimeter.
Cochise Sheriff Larry Dever told reporters the fire was "man-caused" and began in an area closed to visitors and known to law enforcement for "high-intensity, drug- and human-trafficking."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110621/us_nm/us_wildfires_arizona_1
I see a double standard by liberals who blame global warming but the EPA, Envoinmentals and Liberals will never blame Mexicans for doing harm. I think governor Brewer should try now get those federal judges fired because of their rulings.Judges dont make ruling by the laws and common sense they make rulings on their own political beliefs. So how can the governmermnt get them removed from the bench? You see Jan Brewer was right,,If these judges didnt hold up all that time these wilfdfires wouldnt happen right now. Its not the Sheriff says this ,,John McCain says the samething.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...es-John-McCain-blames-illegal-immigrants.html
