Holy @$#%!!! Remember when ICE thugs arrested firefighters recently?
It is looking like those firefighters were set up and betrayed by their own commanders!!!!!!!! this is HORRIFIC!!!!!!!!!!
https://www.hcn.org/articles/firefighters-question-leaders-role-in-ice-raid-near-bear-gulch-fire/?utm_content=buffer38c22&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bufferapp.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Worse, many wildfire veterans believe the management team overseeing the fire crews played a key role in handing over the firefighters to immigration authorities.
Stateline spoke to nearly a dozen firefighters, agency staffers and contractors familiar with the incident, who shared their belief that the top officials assigned to the fire deployed the crews to a remote location under false pretenses so federal agents could check their immigration status. Most of them spoke privately for fear of retaliation.
The raid has reverberated among fire crews, agency leaders and contractors. Wildfire veterans say the arrests have stoked fear and distrust among firefighters on the ground. They worry that crews may be scared to deploy if they may become a target for immigration raids.
“There’s really no way [the wildfire management team] could not have been involved,” said Riva Duncan, a former wildland fire chief who served more than 30 years with the U.S. Forest Service. “We’re all talking about it. People are wondering if they go on a fire with this team, if that could happen to them.”
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The IC for the team (Cal Team 7) is full time employed by a local fire agency in CA, not a federal agency as are many of the incident mgmt team members.
Your point is well taken re: federal employees fulfilling the requirements placed on them by their superiors however.
What is concerning to me about this is private contractors provide much of the hand crew workforce and these crews have increasingly been made up of hispanic fire fighters over the past 20 to 30 years in particular.
Didn’t Trump establish exceptions for immigrants working in the hotel resort industry? 
