Break a Few Eggs
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Look, if you are trying to get rid of all the immigrants, obviously since they are all brown and none are first ladies from Slovenia or anything, you might just have to lock up a few Native Americans too. Those Injun savages aren’t real Americans in the Stephen Miller vision either.
As Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity surges nationwide under President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign, some Native Americans have been detained alongside immigrants.
And while Republicans acknowledge that it’s wrong, they won’t provide an answer as to how Congress or the Trump administration could prevent it from happening. Instead, they say that the detainment of Native Americans—and other U.S. citizens—is part of a broader operation in which, as Rep. Addison McDowell of North Carolina put it, “There will be mistakes.”
“That’s not great if that’s happening,” McDowell, a member of the House Committee on Natural Resources’ subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs, told NOTUS. He added that there are “millions” of people who need to be deported and that “it’s not going to be a perfect process trying to get all of them out.”
There will be mistakes. Right, OK then.
Native American community members have increasingly been stopped, detained, and harassed by ICE solely because of their skin color or names, tribal leaders told The Washington Post.
In recent weeks, at least five Native American men have reportedly been detained in Minneapolis, according to Indian Country Today. In Phoenix, a Navajo man said he was detained for hours earlier this month, even after he presented documentation of his tribal citizenship and his birth certificate. Elaine Miles—a Native American actor known for television roles in shows like HBO’s “The Last of Us”—said she was questioned in Washington state in December by an ICE agent who asked, “Are you Mexican?” according to Seattle’s NPR station.
The number of Native Americans who have been erroneously detained is unclear, but it’s a large enough problem that tribal officials across several states have begun to warn members about ICE operations and inform their communities about what to do if ICE stops them. They are briefing members on their rights and setting up help hotlines, as well as making connections to mutual aid groups.
You know, when the U.S. Army went into Montana and massacred the Blackfeet along the Marias River in 1870, even though that was not the band they were looking for and killed 200 or so people, I guess a few mistakes were made. What ya gonna do?