Lawyers for an firefighter who was taken into custody by U.S. Border Patrol agents while fighting a Washington wildfire are asking a federal judge for his release.
HOODSPORT, Wash. — Lawyers for an Oregon firefighter who was taken into custody by U.S. Border Patrol agents while fighting a Washington state wildfire filed a petition in federal court Friday asking a judge to order his release from an immigration detention facility.
The Oregon man, Rigoberto Hernandez Hernandez, and one other firefighter were part of a 44-person crew fighting a blaze in the Olympic National Forest on Aug. 27 when the agents took them into custody during a
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