Senator Patty Murray calls Trump’s immigration policy ‘fundamentally sick’ after incident in Washington state
Patty Murray, the Washington senator, has called for the Trump administration to provide “immediate answers” about reports that two firefighters were detained by border agents as they were responding to a wildfire in the state.
Federal immigration authorities on Wednesday staged an operation on the scene of the the Bear Gulch fire, a nearly 9,000 acre blaze in the Olympic national forest, where they arrested two people who were part of a contract firefighting crew, the Seattle Times first reported. The fire is the largest currently burning in the state.
The identities of the firefighters have not been made public and federal immigration officials have not said why they were arrested.
In a statement released on Thursday morning, Murray demanded information about the whereabouts of the firefighters and the administration’s policy around immigration enforcement during wildfires.
