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/autumngirl11 3d ago

A coworker told me about her mother being detained by ICE after the LA fires earlier this year. She was picked up from the shelters. They were easy targets because all of their documents had burned and most had no proof of identity. It took several weeks before her mother, a naturalized citizen, was released.

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u/Smokey_tha_bear9000 3d ago

Jfc. This is exactly what I’m worried about