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On 29 Aug 2025,
bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) posted some news:108tn3v$h0j$
1@panix3.panix.com:
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| An appeals court ruled
Attorneys say they have not been able to locate the firefighter since he
landed in federal custody. At least one firefighter arrested in
Washington state while battling a blaze on the Olympic Peninsula is a
resident of Oregon, his attorneys said Thursday.
Attorneys at Innovation Law Lab said they have not been able to contact
the man after officers from multiple federal agencies appeared at a
wildfire work site Wednesday and arrested the two men.
“Although we have been searching for him since yesterday afternoon, CBP
has concealed his whereabouts,” said Rodrigo Fernandez-Ortega, a staff attorney. “Our client has not been able to make contact with his lawyer
or family.”
“We demand that they allow him to access counsel as is his right
afforded by the U.S. Constitution,” Fernandez-Ortega added.
Agents from the Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Forest Service and U.S.
Customs and Border Protection entered the work site and checked the
identities of 44 firefighters who work for privately-owned firefighting
firms, a Border Patrol spokesperson confirmed.
It’s not clear what prompted the visit, but Border Patrol spokesperson
Jaime Ruiz said that they intended to “verify the identities of all
personnel present.”
After the review, two private firefighting firms that contract with the
federal government saw their contracts canceled. Both firms — Table Rock Forestry and ASI Arden Solutions Inc. — are based in Oregon.
https://www.opb.org/article/2025/08/28/firefighter-washington-ice-immigra tion-deported-beawr-gulch-fire/
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