r/EmergencyManagement • u/Smokey_tha_bear9000 • 3d ago

ICE at disasters

Hey friends,

There’s been some growing concern in my world from shelter managers becoming concerned about the potential for ICE to show up at Hurricane/emergency shelters. There was a Biden administration directive that was supposed to prevent immigration raids etc from occurring during natural disasters. Our local leadership has expressed the idea that this shouldn’t be a problem.

But with yesterday’s arrests of wildland firefighters AT a wildfire in Washington, it appears that nowhere is safe anymore.

Be safe out there and look out for each other and especially those that we serve.

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u/kiipii 3d ago

Was part of a discussion a few weeks ago about how to create policies around this concern. Do shelters let them in? Hand over registration info? Jurisdictions need to be discussing this now.

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u/Smokey_tha_bear9000 3d ago

1000%. As a mass care branch director, I’m here to protect the people seeking shelter. I for one will not stand by and let shelter refugees be dragged out of my shelters as long as I have a say in the matter.

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u/HauntingReference611 3d ago

Be happy to deploy that way BD to assist.

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u/momof3bs 3d ago

Make sure the disaster case managers and a legal are the first ones at those shelters