Immigration Side Effect

The New York Times today reported that 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.

I wonder how many of the 95% non-Hispanic Congressional Districts, which are pressuring their congressmen to support draconian anti-immigration laws are also summer forest fire prone areas. Maybe in the same way Congress is so distressed about the FBI searching Congressional Offices, while hardly noticing NSA monitoring of US citizens, they will decide in this case a few illegals are not so bad after all.