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/GPDDC Federal 3d ago

FEMA is Homeland Security and ICE is Homeland Security. These decision are up to S1 not us.

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u/Smokey_tha_bear9000 3d ago

Good thing we’re not all Feds here

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u/GPDDC Federal 3d ago

Good point. Sorry I assumed

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u/Smokey_tha_bear9000 3d ago

But we are on the same side. Don’t sweat it.

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u/GPDDC Federal 3d ago

Yes we are