The United States border police officers arrested two firefighters who fought a forest fire in the Olympic Peninsula near Seattle (Washington state), reports the Seattle Times.
The two men were arrested when an investigation was launched against the two suppliers for those who work, who are suspected of using undocumented workers, federal authorities said on Thursday, August 28.
A fire not yet controlled
When the control operation was carried out, firefighters worked on one of the most important fires in the region. Around 36 km² burned in this fire, says AP. The fire was not under control this Thursday.
A situation that bothered the Democratic Senator of the state of Washington Patty Murray, who denounced an immigration policy “fundamentally unhealthy that” tenca “the service to combat forest fires.
“Here, forest fires can destroy entire cities, and they have already done so,” he added. Continuing: “This new republican policy that consists of placing firefighters in the exercise of their functions is as immoral as dangerous.”
“Just for Trump to be a success in Fox News”
“One of the arrested firefighters comes from Oregon. My office is trying to get more information about its location as quickly as possible,” said Democratic Senator Ron Wyden, in X.
“Stop firefighters who risk their lives to protect our communities does not make us safer. This Machiavellian operation endangers just so that Donald Trump is a success in Fox News,” he added.
This double arrest intervenes in a context of large tensions linked to the massive deployments of ice agents, a very controversial federal agency in charge of immigration.
The US president erected the fight against illegal immigration in absolute priority, evoking an “invasion” of the United States for “abroad criminals” and communicating abundantly for the expulsions of immigrants.
Source: BFM TV
