Firefighters tackling wildfire in US arrested by immigration agents | Migration News

Border patrol officers swoop in, make arrests as firefighters prepare to tackle 3,600-hectare blaze in Washington State.

Two firefighters who were part of a crew trying to help put out a wildfire in the US state of Washington’s Olympic Peninsula were taken into custody by United States Border Patrol agents, federal authorities said.

The US Department of Homeland Security and the Border Patrol said in a statement on Thursday that border patrol agents found…