"Dilemma"--yeah, that's one word for it

But I can think of others.

Here's the NYTimes headline:

With Illegal Immigrants Fighting
Wildfires, West Faces a Dilemma

And here's the money quote:

SALEM, Ore. — The debate over immigration, which has filtered into almost every corner of American life in recent months, is now sweeping through the woods, and the implications could be immense for the coming fire season in the West.

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.

Gee. If only our National Guard units were available to fight fires this summer. Whoops--they're pinned down in Iraq. My mistake.

As Steve Gilliard delicately puts it: "See any Minutemen around?"