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.

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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.