Point Source of Monument Fire? Border group says yes..Foot trail leads away from Wash 62 flood control devices.

Point Source of Monument Fire? Border group says yes..Foot trail leads away from Wash 62 flood control devices. According to a photo taken by American Border Patrol, the Monument Fire that took such a heavy toll on Americans was started in Mexico. Now, ABP has followed up with a closer look that suggests that the fire crossed into the U.S. at Wash 62 on the border..."A person standing near the border in Wash 62 on June 12 would have experience blast-furnace winds blowing north," Spencer said. "Add to that the fact that a fire started right there leads me to the conclusion that it was arson."

http://www.americanpatrol.com/11-FEATURES/110627-FEATURE/110627_Feature.html

Phoenix, Maricopa County, AZ: MCSO asking detained illegals about wildfires..20 illegal aliens arrested yesterday

Phoenix, Maricopa County, AZ: MCSO asking detained illegals about wildfires..20 illegal aliens arrested yesterday...Sheriff Joe Arpaio says his deputies will more thoroughly question [illegal aliens] and human smugglers they pick up about wildfires burning in southern Arizona. According to an MCSO news release, deputies arrested 20 [illegal aliens] as they made their way through Maricopa County Wednesday morning..All were reportedly from Mexico and said they were headed to locations in Texas, Tennessee, and New York state. They all entered the border near where the fires are burning in southeast Arizona, according to the news release

http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/state/mcso-asking-border-crossers-about-Arizona-fires

Video links illegal aliens and Murphy Fire

Video links illegal aliens and Murphy Fire...This video is from a game camera placed on a known smuggling trail in Ramanote Canyon. The word on the street is that the Border Patrol caught a group of illegal aliens in the area that admitted that they set the Murphy fire, but the aliens were not held for further investigation and were kicked back across the border...Fire Name: Murphy Complex (Includes the Murphy Fire and Pajarita Fire) Time/Date Started: 3:28 pm, May 30, 2011...Location: Nogales Ranger District in the Coronado National Forest Five miles east of Arivaca, AZ and four miles west of Tubac, AZ

http://www.americanpatrol.com/ABP/NEWS/110623-FireBackground.html

Fox Runs ABP Fire Photo! Huffington Post cries foul

Fox Runs ABP Fire Photo! Huffington Post cries foul... An aerial photograph purportedly taken on June 12 of the area by American Border Patrol, an independent organization that monitors the border, claims the blaze actually started in Mexico and traveled upwind into the U.S.. Cochise County Sheriff Dever said that was an "accurate picture" of what occurred. "There's really only one likely source of this fire and that's someone who was moving through the area illegally," Dever told FoxNews.com during a brief interview. "It's evidence of illegal trafficking. It's the result of illegal activity any way you look at it. It wasn't naturally caused."
[Huffington Post: Amazingly, Fox News published and relied on data collected by Glenn Spencer, an infamous anti-immigrant extremist and militia activist... Wow, so now the news media and law enforcement are relying on known anti-extremist groups for "accurate" data about Mexicans? --- (Anti-extremist?)]

http://www.americanpatrol.com/11-FEATURES/110623-FEATURE/110623_Feature.html

DHS Negligence Led to Monument Fire...Feds failed to use simple method to secure the border

DHS Negligence Led to Monument Fire...Feds failed to use simple method to secure the border..The Monument Fire that has devastated the Coronado National Monument, the Huachuca Mountains and the surrounding communities, could have been easily prevented. The fire was most likely started in Mexico by persons involved in smuggling. Had DHS secured the border in the area where the fire started, there would have been no reason for people to be in the area – and no one to start the fire.

http://www.americanpatrol.com/11-FEATURES/110622-FEATURE/110622_Feature.html

Getting Warmer on Cause of Fire...When will the Forest Service clear the air?

Getting Warmer on Cause of Fire...When will the Forest Service clear the air? Cochise Co. "Sheriff Larry Dever will tell you that the Monument Fire was started when the park, the forest was closed. So anyone who was in there is illegal," The Forest Service has only said publicly that the wildfires appear to be 'human caused' and have not offered any evidence that the suspects may have been illegal aliens....The fact is that as far back as 2006 the Forest Service testified before Congress, and I quote, 'Large numbers of warming and cooking fires built and abandoned by CROSS BORDER VIOLATERS (ILLEGAL ALIENS) have caused wildfires that have destroyed valuable natural and cultural resources.'"

http://www.americanpatrol.com/11-FEATURES/110621-FEATURE/110621_Feature.html

A Monumental Spin...Officials play word games... the Monument Fire was started in Mexico

A Monumental Spin...Officials play word games... the Monument Fire was started in Mexico....ALERT: A new wildfire is burning along the U.S. Mexico border about six miles east of Sasabe. The Forest Service says the fire started in Mexico, and is 250 acres in Arizona

http://www.americanpatrol.com/11-FEATURES/110620-FEATURE/110620_Feature.html

Napolitano is next on the scandal target list called “Bordergate”

Napolitano is next on the scandal target list called “Bordergate”...Janet Napolitano, Sec. of DHS, has been claiming the border is safer than ever claiming apprehensions of illegal aliens are down. The “Bordergate” scandal: Two problems here: the 1st being lots of reports from Border Patrol agents that they have been told to look the other way and not apprehend all the illegal aliens they see out in the borderlands. Thus apprehensions are down….even though lots of illegal aliens are still entering the country..2nd problem: the fires that are sweeping AZ’s borderlands that are widely suspected in the area to have been started by illegal aliens or drug smugglers. Obama Administration is playing “politically correct fire stories” by trying to avoid confronting the mounting evidence illegal aliens are in the National Forest lands on the border and starting fires by accident (or deliberately). [First Eric Holder gets his feet put to the fire...Then Janet Napolitano]

http://tucsoncitizen.com/view-from-baja-arizona/2011/06/18/napolitano-is-next-on-the-scandal-target-list-called-bordergate/

McCain Blames Illegals for Fires...Failure to secure border linked to Arizona disasters

McCain Blames Illegals for Fires...Failure to secure border linked to Arizona disasters...U.S. Sen. John McCain is blaming illegal aliens for starting some of the wildfires that have scorched hundreds of thousands of acres in Arizona. "There is substantial evidence that some of these fires have been caused by people who have crossed our border illegally.. prompts a swift rebuke from Latino civil rights advocates...McCain said that illegal aliens set such fires either to send signals, keep warm or distract law enforcement agents. But he did not specify which fires allegedly had been started by illegal aliens, nor did he identify his sources or provide details of the "substantial" evidence he cited. [Illegal aliens didn't start the Monument Fire -- Someone in Mexico (we presume Mexicans) did]

http://www.americanpatrol.com/11-FEATURES/110619-FEATURE/110619_Feature.html

Many in S. Ariz. fire zone blame illegal border crossers

Many in S. Ariz. fire zone blame illegal border crossers...The two largest wildfires burning in Southern Arizona originated in rugged, mountainous corridors frequently used by cross-border people and drug smugglers. And the U.S. Forest Service has determined that both fires were human-caused. So even though the investigations remain open, speculation is ablaze that illegal aliens or smugglers are responsible for the Horseshoe 2 Fire northeast of Douglas and the Murphy Complex Fire northwest of Nogales.

http://azstarnet.com/article_559f6633-2149-5db9-b404-286fd61bd296.html

AZ: Did smugglers set still-raging Arizona wildfire?

AZ: Did smugglers set still-raging Arizona wildfire? The so-called ‘Horseshoe 2 fire’ has been burning in the Coronado National Forest since early May, and as of Sunday morning, had destroyed more than 100,000 acres of Arizona wilderness. -- While Forest Service officials have only ruled-out lightning as a cause, locals believe they know who is responsible

http://www.examiner.com/drug-cartel-in-national/did-smugglers-set-still-raging-arizona-wildfire

AZ Rancher: Illegals Have Set 11 Fires in the Last 3 Years

AZ Rancher: Illegals Have Set 11 Fires in the Last 3 Years...The Horseshoe Fire #2 near the New Mexico border has burned over 2,000 acres in the Chiricahua Mountains near Portal, Arizona. The Tucson Citizen reported: Ed Ashurst is a rancher who lives over by the Chricahua Mountains in eastern Arizona. Here is a commentary he wrote on Sunday May 15th about the huge fire that is burning down the countryside over there

http://gatewaypundit.rightnetwork.com/2011/05/az-rancher-illegals-have-set-11-fires-in-the-last-3-years/