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Lawyers for firefighter ask judge to order his release from ICE facility
- Immigration officials arrested 23-year-old Oregon wildland firefighter Rigoberto Hernandez Hernandez on August 27 while he fought the Bear Gulch Fire in Washington's Olympic Peninsula.
- Hernandez was taken into custody during a multiagency probe into suspected payroll irregularities involving contractors, despite a 2021 DHS directive intended to prohibit immigration enforcement at disaster response sites, a policy that appears to have been disregarded.
- Hernandez, whose parents were migrant farmworkers, relocated to Oregon several years ago and has been employed as a wildland firefighter since then. In 2018, he and his family filed a U-Visa application based on their status as victims of federal crimes, which remains pending.
- Legal representatives from the Innovation Law Lab submitted a federal habeas corpus petition along with a request for a temporary restraining order on Friday, contending that the arrest infringed upon his constitutional rights and that immigration enforcement should not interfere with emergency response efforts.
- The arrest sparked national condemnation from lawmakers and immigrant advocates, who called for Hernandez's release and criticized the enforcement as harmful to public safety and community trust during a large wildfire response.
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Lawyers for an Oregon firefighter who was arrested by U.S. Border Patrol agents while fighting a forest fire in Washington state filed a petition in a federal court on Friday asking a judge to order his release from an immigration detention center. Oregonman Rigoberto Hernández Hernández and another firefighter were part of a team of 44 people fighting a fire in the National Olympic Forest on August 27 when officers arrested them during a crimin…
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Lawyers for firefighter ask judge to order his release from ICE facility
Lawyers for an Oregon firefighter who was taken into custody by U.S. Border Patrol agents while fighting a Washington state wildfire are asking a federal judge to order his release from an immigration detention facility.
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