http://www.katu.com/stories/87047.html
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In 2003, concerned that having large numbers of people on fire crews with limited English skills may compromise safety if instructions are not understood, the Oregon Department of Forestry decided to take action. Did they decide to require new hires to be able to speak English, the language of this country? Did they decide to enforce the laws already on the books, against hiring illegal aliens?
Nope. According to a new report from KATU-TV, they enacted a new law that requires firefighter crew bosses to be BILINGUAL... or lose their jobs.
You read that right. Instead of requiring new firefighter recruits to speak English -- or even be here LEGALLY -- they decided to require crew bosses to speak SPANISH, or be demoted or fired.
And now it's actually happening.
Jaime Pickering, a Crew Boss overseeing 20 firefighters, was demoted in rank to Squad Boss because he refused to be forced to learn Spanish -- and then was busted all the way down in rank when he went public with his story. Others are actually losing their jobs over this.
THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS. At a time when Americans are demanding that the federal government secure the border against the illegal alien invasion, English-speaking heroes like Jaime Pickering are being demoted, and even fired, for refusing to bow to politically-correct pressures from pro-illegal alien forces inside the government.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/envir...ire2_8-09.html
The work is seasonal, it's difficult, it's dirty, and the hours are long. So they've turned to a new labor pool: Migrant workers from Mexico and Central America,
many of them illegal aliens who speak almost no English, who are in the U.S. with fake ID cards purchased on the black market. They come to the Northwest to train at a school like this one because they have heard they can make $800 or more a week. The people in this group all recently graduated from fire school in Philomath, Oregon. Most of them are today working on fire crews in the West. Several told the NewsHour they are in the United States illegally and, speaking through an interpreter, described the risks they were willing to take to get here.
When these firefighters work for the forest service,
their pay comes from the federal government, but private contractors are responsible for equipping and training each worker, so a lot of contractors in Oregon turn to retired firefighter John Berger.
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