california can't afford firefighters and newsom declared a disaster so he can have the ca natl guard move in. since we have military agreements with mexico, newsom is permitted to buy equivalent units from mexico. mexico actually makes a lot of money doing this, since cal-fire pays them ca firefighter rates (about $10/hr, 30% under ca min wage) to do so. $10/hr (again, under ca min wage) goes much further in sonora than the us, so this makes mexicans a lot of money very quickly. this situation exists, and continues to exist, because the state government utterly refuses to raise property taxes or ban suburban sprawl creating a permanent understaffing situation in the first place. which is why the urban parts of la don't have big out of control fires, despite having bigger individual fires overall.
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