McCain blames illegal immigrants for wildfires

It always comes back to illegal immigration in Arizona even when the state is on fire. US Sen John McCain has defended a statement he made over the weekend that there was "substantial evidence" border crossers were partly responsible for wildfires in the state. Two other Arizona Republicans stood with him. But activists swiftly jumped on McCain s statement as "scapegoating."Authorities say the three major blazes in Arizona were started by humans, but they don t know any more details.The debate raged as authorities went through neighborhoods to examine damage from a wildfire that burned into a heavily-populated area near the US-Mexico border. About 10,000 people remained evacuated on the outskirts of Sierra Vista about 24 kilometres north of the border where the so-called Monument fire swept off a mountain and destroyed 14 homes and four businesses SOURCE.