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/awwaygirl 3d ago

ICE just arrested firefighters in Washington state WHILE THEY WERE FIGHTING A FIRE.

Source

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u/Mediocre-Tomato666 3d ago

The wild part is most of the firefighters were from local tribes. As in, not, nor have they EVER BEEN FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS, immigrants. This is solely about going after nonwhite people. We need to get honest about that if we want to actually protect each other. You can't fight what you won't see.

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u/Smokey_tha_bear9000 3d ago

I’ve heard this from a a few places today. If that’s accurate, that makes an already disgusting incident somehow even more abhorrent.

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u/Smokey_tha_bear9000 3d ago edited 3d ago

Oh im aware. Wildland fire is my main job, so I keep a pretty close eye on that world in general.

Absolutely disgusting

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u/Tawnyk 3d ago

WTF is wrong with BLM for inviting this bullshit?

I’m a volunteer FF and EMT with a local department, but also volunteer with a major emergency sheltering agency. Makes me want to throw up the thought of ICE showing up at ANY emergency. Big or small.

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u/Smokey_tha_bear9000 3d ago

I think in yesterdays case, it was a California state IMT that let ICE walk all over them.

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u/viciousheeler 3d ago edited 2d ago

It wasn’t BLM inviting this. The IMT that is in charge of the fire is responsible for this asinine situation.

Edit/ did not see original source link. Disappointed that they would use this kind of baiting strategy on a wildland fire…

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u/Tawnyk 3d ago

The article literally says

“BLM asked U.S. Border Patrol agents to verify the identities of personnel at the site near Lake Cushman, to ensure they matched contractor rosters, according to Border Patrol.”