Thursday, June 01, 2006

Cracking down on illegal immigrants 'cept when we need them

The New York Times (registration required) reports that, once again, we might have to postpone getting rid of illegal immigrants because we really need them ...
The debate over immigration, which has filtered into almost every corner of American life in recent months, is now sweeping through the woods, and the implications could be immense for the coming fire season in the West.

As many as half of the roughly 5,000 private firefighters based in the Pacific Northwest and contracted by state and federal governments to fight forest fires are immigrants, mostly from Mexico. And an untold number of them are working here illegally. ...

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