Immigration attorneys are demanding federal officials release a wildland firefighter arrested last month on the Olympic Peninsula.

Lawyers for the Portland-based Innovation Law Lab and the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project filed a federal lawsuit Friday on behalf of Rigoberto Hernandez, seeking his immediate release from the Northwest Immigration and Customs Enforcement Processing Center in Tacoma, where he’s being held.

“The unlawful and dangerous actions of ICE, Border Patrol and Homeland Security under this administration have caused chaos, instilled fear in communities and torn families apart,” Isa Peña, the Law Lab’s director of strategy, said at a news conference Friday morning in Portland.

Immigration officials arrested Hernandez and another wildland firefighter, who is not name

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