cold at night and sometimes cigarettes are. there is nothing to indicate there was any other cause and this highest probability, not possibility, is that that is how the fire started. bill: you remain suspicious based on that answer then? and, you said you could have done a much better job, earlier? and you accept responsibility for that, meaning what, sheriff? well, i think in terms of our communications, is what i think could have been done better, earlier. in terms of mitigating or preventing this fire, you have to we have to secure our borders, and bottom line, it s not done, it continues to be a high intensity, trafficking and human smuggling area, and that problem is solve and our border is secure, we re going to be living under this continued threat. bill: sheriff, one more thing. has it been proven that the fire was caused by man? yes.
me. good morning, to you. thanks for having me on. bill: you are welcome. explain this, now. is there proof illegals help start these fires. caller: let me tell you what the facts are on the ground. the fire started at the u.s.-mexico border, where the constructed border fence ends, and, the part that the national park it started in closed for several days, prior to the starting of the fire and, there were no trails or easy access by roadway, where somebody would be camping, et cetera. and the forest was also closed, because of fire hazard and bottom line is, nobody was in the park, would have been there legally, no nothing and it s a high intensity drug trafficking and human smuggling area and we have scouts that hang out there all the time and they light signal fires and they lighted warming fires, because it gets
since 2007, $5 trillion. that s the crime of the century. now the border. we hear people under the umbrella. lip service on the issue for decades. has anything been done? 3500 acres of southern arizona along the mexican border is now closed to you. our property, closed to you due to increased violence in the region. not far from phoenix, the number two kidnapping capital of the world. in amica.ica. bogota, columbia. the president government put the signs up. danger: public warning. travel not recommended. active drug and human smuggling area. really, in america. there is no more rule of law in the borders. say illegals are living in the shadows. are theyreally?
concern to all americans and to all citizens in mexico when we see this increased activity at the border. i think there are some encouraging signs in that the u.s. government has brought some very significant cases, including a case you referenced against the sanchez organization that actually set up posts in san diego and was operating as a franchise. but you re absolutely right that folks have got to be concerned and pay attention to state department warnings about travel in particular areas. i want to ask you about that. the marine corps is telling its service members and in tijuana they posted signs along a stretch of interstate 8 warning that they re entering an active drug and human smuggling area. is it just the border region that should be the main subject of concern for american tourists? what about other wider parts of mexico where the drug trade could make it violent. that is where the majority of the violence has occurred to date.
the people who live in the southern part of my state do not have a secure environment, to wit, there are signs that the government put up that say warning: you are in a drug smuggling area, and a human smuggling area. the police chief of nogalis, arizona, has been told his police officers will be murdered if they interfere with the drug cartels. that funnel is coming up through the state of arizona. yes, there have been some improvements. we have a long, long way to go. for the federal government to sue the state of arizona because the federal government hasn t carried out its responsibility and the state of arizona is trying to get its border secured is really remarkable. chris: senator, we have less than two minutes left and i want to get to one final area with you. sure. chris: you have been very critical of the president for insisting that u.s. troops will begin to leave afghanistan, begin to leave in july of 2011, saying that it