The Democratic Governor of the State of Washington, Bob Fergusonand also the democratic senator Patty Murrayboth Democrats, strongly condemned that ICE will arrest two forest firefighters when they worked off A forest fire.
The federal immigration authorities held Wednesday An operation in the place of the Bear Gulch firea fire of almost 9,000 acres (3,600 hectares) in the Olympic National Forest, where they arrested two people who were part of a hired firefighters team, according to reported for the first time The Seattle Times.
The fire is the largest that currently burns in the state of Washington.
Immigration authorities They forced firefighters to stop their work and to train to show their identificationthe Seattle Times reported. A firefighter told the newspaper that they were not allowed to say goodbye to their detained colleagues.
Governor Ferguson said Thursday that he is “deeply concerned about this situation” and that he has ordered an investigation into what happened.
For more than three hours, DHS agents demanded the identification of members of two private contractors teamsthat were among the hundreds of firefighters, deployed to combat the forest fire, the largest active fire in the state of Washington, according to The Seattle Times newspaper.
Those who were in the place said that federal agents profirmed expletives against staff and prevented them from moving freely, according to The Seattle Times.
“We risk life here to save the community,” He declared to the newspaper a firefighter who asked not to be identified. “This is how they treat us.”
Until Wednesday morning, the fire, located east of Seattle, covered almost 9,000 acres (3,642 hectares) and was contained in 13%.
The firefighters arrest also caused the indignation of Senator Patty Murraywhich charged against the administration of President Donald Trump and his mass deportation campaign qualifying the policy of “sick and perverse.”
“This new republican policy of detaining firefighters at work is as immoral as dangerous,” Murray added in A statementin which he highlighted the importance of the work of firefighters before the fires, which in recent years have devastated entire peoples on the west coast of the United States.
Vanessa Cárdenas, Executive Director of America’s Voice, He issued the following statement: “Our federal government should be extinguishing fires, not fanning them. Perhaps nothing reflects the obsession of President Trump and Stephen Miller with mass deportation and the purge of immigrants in the country than the news that, literally, this administration is prioritizing the arrest of firefighters on fire extinguishing.”
This Thursday, the US border politics, Tom Homan, warned that Migratory operations would intensify in sanctuary cities Like New York, Los Angeles, Portland or Seattle, all of them with policies that limit the collaboration of their police with the immigration authorities.
The federal policy under the administration of President Joe Biden established that, Without pressing circumstances, agents would not perform their operations in areas of natural disasters or emergencies. However, It is not yet clear if this policy remains in force.
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