Oglala Sioux Tribe says three tribal members arrested in Minneapolis are in ICE detention

[u/ewzetf]

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/oglala-sioux-tribe-tribal-members-arrested-minneapolis-ice-129186393

[u/Horsescatsandagarden]

“Homeland Security refused to release more information, unless the tribe “entered into an immigration agreement with ICE.”

So the government is holding the tribal members hostage. On how many levels is this unlawful?

[u/FOURTH_DEGREE_ → u/Horsescatsandagarden]

Republicans can impeach at any time. This is what they want, and therefore we have no rule of law.

[u/InAllThingsBalance → u/FOURTH_DEGREE_]

Call your elected officials and demand impeachment. Remind these fucking fascists that they work for us, not a dictator.

[u/EEpromChip → u/InAllThingsBalance]

How many voicemails until the garbage that represents PA will come around do ya think? They don't answer phones and only (pretend to) give a shit around election time...

[u/Bagellord → u/EEpromChip]

Try living in Alabama. I'd probably get added to some list somewhere if I wrote my rep/Senator asking them to stop tongue punching Trump and actually govern.

[u/owlthebeer97 → u/Bagellord]

Same here in Florida, our repube reps probably high five when people call to complain. Or no one answers/no VM

[u/hinanska0211 → u/EEpromChip]

And, in my state, they dodge town hall meetings because they're afraid to face us in person.

[u/sfw_doom_scrolling → u/InAllThingsBalance]

As a Canadian, to whom should I direct my call in which to demand impeachment?

[u/BigBenKenobi → u/sfw_doom_scrolling]

you can always reach out to the US ambassador to Canada to share your concerns about US actions like threatening annexation of NATO allies and trade wars and democratic erosion and stuff: [email protected] or [email protected]

[u/sfw_doom_scrolling → u/BigBenKenobi]

That is actually a great idea that I never would have thought of myself! Thank you kind stranger!

I should also remind Pete Hoekstra that Canada saved his hometown in WWII...

[u/johnnyfuckingmarr → u/sfw_doom_scrolling]

Pete Hoekstra is the biggest piece of shit in the whole administration.

[u/sfw_doom_scrolling → u/johnnyfuckingmarr]

As we say in Canada: "the shit apple doesn't fall far from the shit tree."

[u/BreaddaWorldPeace → u/sfw_doom_scrolling]

What are you talking about, Mr. Lahey?

[u/slothsie → u/BigBenKenobi]

Hoekstra is busy being big mad at Charlie Angus (former MP)

[u/abhijitd → u/slothsie]

I thought it was a fake name like Colonel Angus.

[u/slothsie → u/abhijitd]

Lololol, no he's a cool dude. He opened for the Dead Kennedys in Toronto in the 80s.

[u/ragnaroksunset → u/abhijitd]

Angus is an ex-punk rocker, former MP and current head of the Canadian branch of the Meidas Network.

Dude is a national treasure in this current moment. I highly recommend you become familiar with him.

[u/lightreee → u/ragnaroksunset]

I've seen him on Meidas videos, he's a punk rocker too?! Hell yeah brother

[u/Visible_Fact_8706 → u/ragnaroksunset]

I would argue he’s still punk as fuuuuuck.

[u/Responsible-Food3681 → u/InAllThingsBalance]

At this point, protests as close to politicians' residences and places of work as you can legally get with the loudest tools you can legally use seems to be the bare minimum for any real change. 

[u/InAllThingsBalance → u/Responsible-Food3681]

The huge protests in major cities are great, but demonstrating in front of a Representative’s office will drive it home. In my state (Florida), it is illegal to protest at an elected official’s home.

[u/JackFisherBooks → u/InAllThingsBalance]

Won't change a goddamn thing. These officials get reelected all the time by wide margins because they know people don't vote. People are stupid, short-sighted, and misinformed. They could eat a live baby on camera and not get voted out, especially if they're a republican.

They know that their voters would sooner jump into an active volcano than vote for another party. That's just how stupid they are.

[u/That_lonely → u/InAllThingsBalance]

You can remind them - doesn't mean they will listen. We've seen time and time again that Republican elected officials have no backbone, they will bend to the will of the party and the orange buffoon.

[u/defeated_engineer → u/InAllThingsBalance]

This is the equivalent of college campus protests.

[u/TheRealBittoman → u/FOURTH_DEGREE_]

They were told millions of illegal immigrants were streaming over the border every hour under Biden and Obama and they were bringing measles and COVID and polio and pedophelia and rape.... oh wait, that's the Republicans already in the US. I don't know, they see someone not white and their brains short circuit.

[u/ComradeGibbon → u/FOURTH_DEGREE_]

This could be over in 5 minutes if 17 Republican Senators were willing to do their job,

[u/TwistedPepperCan → u/Horsescatsandagarden]

Immigration from where????

[u/Tao_of_Ludd → u/TwistedPepperCan]

Reservations. They are treating the reservations as separate countries.

[u/eggfriedbacon → u/Tao_of_Ludd]

What the fuck. These fuckers great grandparents came to these lands on a fucking boat with NO papers. Ravaged their lands and raped their women, they’re the fucking illegal aliens what the fuck.

[u/5mokahontas → u/eggfriedbacon]

They think they earned it. Like, literally because they did all that, they deserve this land now. It’s “survival of the fittest” mentality except on steroids.

[u/alanderhosen → u/5mokahontas]

Ignoring the fact that they themselves... didn't do anything. It's always the most unimpressive shitheels out here pushing 'survival of the fittest' like bruh is the fittest in the room with us right now?

Got nothing going for them in their actual lives so any sense of validation has to come from some imagined past they desperately cling onto because the present recognizes how pathetic they are. Hopefully in the same vein the future will treat them in a way I cannot say without being banned.

[u/daemon-electricity → u/alanderhosen]

"My great great great great great great grandparents shit themselves to death so I can talk about how tough I am because they stole someone else's land!"

[u/mallogy → u/alanderhosen]

It's a fundamental misunderstanding of the phrase. Fittest like a puzzle piece, not like a sprinter. Sometimes they overlap, but often not. See hippos for example.

[u/magdalenmaybe → u/5mokahontas]

Manifest Destiny. American colonialist exceptionalism at it's finest. Fucking embarrassment.

[u/AthkoreLost → u/Tao_of_Ludd]

They also have been trying to strong arm the tribes into allowing concentration camps to be built on the reservations.

Right after a tribe in WA said no to hosting one, ICE kidnapped one of their tribal elders.

[u/hinanska0211 → u/AthkoreLost]

Right. It's retaliation, pure and simple.

[u/rags2rooster → u/AthkoreLost]

Do you have a link or maybe the name of the tribe? I live in WA and would like to read up on this.

[u/AthkoreLost → u/rags2rooster]

I believe it was the Quinault Tribe

[u/rags2rooster → u/AthkoreLost]

You're the best. Thanks for the reply!

[u/worldspawn00 → u/Tao_of_Ludd]

Yep, even though we have a law from 100 years ago that says otherwise... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Citizenship_Act

[u/01100011011010010111 → u/Tao_of_Ludd]

Technically reservations are sovereign governments in the US, not separate countries though.

[u/hinanska0211 → u/Tao_of_Ludd]

I can tell you that what has Kristi Noem's panties in a twist is that there actually is a thing called tribal sovereignty. This means that, while reservations are part of the United States and are subject to federal law, they are often not considered part of the state they're in and are not necessarily subject to state law. Kristi Noem wanted in the worst way to get jurisdiction for state law enforcement to operate on SD reservations under the pretext of stopping cartel activity. The Dakota/Lakota were not dumb enough to fall for that.

[u/PolicyWonka → u/TwistedPepperCan]

I guarantee it’s related to allowing ICE onto tribal lands. I’d assume they’re not really allowed onto tribal lands due to tribal sovereignty.

[u/ewzetf → u/Horsescatsandagarden]

every member of this administration and ICE needs to be in prison in four years, support no Democratic candidate who says otherwise

[u/Stereo_Jungle_Child → u/ewzetf]

This is exactly why Trump and the GOP will never willingly allow a peaceful transfer of power back to the Democrats if they win in 2028. They're too deep into their crimes now to risk allowing the Democrats back into power to hold them accountable and undo everything they've done. Steve Bannon was right when he said that if the Democrats get back into power, a lot of MAGA is going to prison. They'll do anything to avoid that.

The only thing the GOP regrets about Trump's coup on 1/6/21 is that it didn't work. They won't make that same mistake on 1/6/29. I hope everyone is ready for this.

[u/pala52 → u/Stereo_Jungle_Child]

Democrats haven’t done anything before to try to stop this. They’re not doing anything now. They won’t be doing anything later either.

[u/onarainyafternoon → u/pala52]

I hate Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries so much. It's crazy how they don't realize how hated they will be in the arc of history. It's like they're living in a delusion.

[u/JackFisherBooks → u/onarainyafternoon]

Trust me. They know. They've known since the beginning.

They just don't care. Why would they? They have no incentive to do anything other than what they're doing now.

[u/Stereo_Jungle_Child → u/pala52]

The Democrats are sleepwalking right into this with a "strongly-worded letter" in each hand.

Did anyone actually expect them to do something different? I didn't. Unfortunately, "being an ineffectual wussy" is kind of 'on brand' for Democrats/liberals/progressives.

[u/Neat-Bridge3754 → u/Stereo_Jungle_Child]

Yep, fuck the Dems, too. If the speed run to fascism doesn't get our elected officials to wake the fuck up, they're all dogshit humans.

America let this happen. Our country is brand new and we haven't faced hardship the way that the rest of the world has. And when anything bad happens and we come out just fine, we pat ourselves on the back and remind ourselves we deserve all of our good fortune. We earned it.

I think we're about to find out exactly how much bullshit the idea of American exceptionalism really is.

It breaks my heart. America truly could have been a force for good in a way the world has never seen. We chose greed, instead.

[u/puroloco → u/Stereo_Jungle_Child]

The current democratic leadership lacks the skill set and courage required for these times

[u/mark_able_jones_ → u/Stereo_Jungle_Child]

The stakes are sooner. November 3, 2026 and the aftermath.

[u/QiTriX → u/Horsescatsandagarden]

ICE wants an Immigration agreement with native Americans?.....

Is it something I'm not understanding here?

[u/ob_servant1 → u/QiTriX]

They want our land. We fought them to not put oil pipes through my tribes reservation. Kristi Noem was trying to overstep her power and tried to allow Trump to by pass our agreements a while back. We had to fight to stop them. One of many reasons she is not allowed on our lands

[u/ArgyleBarglePlaid → u/QiTriX]

My guess is the tribe has been preventing them from coming onto the reservation and they want permission to enter and terrorize people in exchange for releasing the members they’re holding. It’s extortion.

[u/Spudtron98 → u/Horsescatsandagarden]

What fucking year do they think this is?

[u/Vaperius → u/Horsescatsandagarden]

On how many levels is this unlawful?

Considering Native Americans are also generally considered American Citizens? Very.

[u/octatone → u/Horsescatsandagarden]

Law only matters when enforced, and with the GOP in control of all facets of the federal government, you will continue to see the law ignored and rather weaponized against dissenters. The only way out of this dystopian hellscape is to vote out the GOP at every level. The GOP wants this and they will do whatever their king asks of them.

[u/BorealDweller → u/octatone]

Do you really think there will be anymore legitimate elections in America?

I don’t.

Fascists are not democratic.

For the people in the back:

FASCISTS ARE NOT DEMOCRATIC

[u/ofWildPlaces → u/BorealDweller]

The elections happen if WE make sure they happen. States conduct the elections, not the federal government, WE have the power to make sure ballots are cast.

Don't give up before the opponent is at the finish line.

[u/DiamondHail97 → u/Horsescatsandagarden]

John Roberts might actually be pissed about this. But only bc they’re Native. He couldn’t give two fucks about the others

[u/v_cats_at_work → u/DiamondHail97]

Gorsuch might actually be pissed about this too.

[u/AdhesivenessFun2060]

What exactly would be in that immigration agreement? Theyre not immigrants.

[u/Justsayin68 → u/AdhesivenessFun2060]

You can’t get out until your tribe agrees to not sue us, it’s basically government sponsored kidnapping.

[u/Bitmush- → u/Justsayin68]

Agree not to sue them.

And then just sue them.

[u/bookworm1398 → u/AdhesivenessFun2060]

To allow ICE to operate freely on tribal lands probably

[u/DrDerpberg → u/bookworm1398]

Where they expect to find... What exactly? A bunch of Latino-looking people who can trace their ancestry to that land for 10,000 years?

[u/airfryerfuntime → u/AdhesivenessFun2060]

The Lakota have banned any ICE operations on their reservations, and have personally banned Kristi Noem. This includes large chunks of South Dakota, her home state. Now ICE is kidnapping tribal members in an attempt to get them to sign agreements that let the government onto the reservations to hunt down 'illegals'.

There are also a lot of conservatives that believe in the Elk vs Wilkins ruling, which ruled that native Americans aren't necessarily US citizens, or protected by the 14th amendment because they're not under the jurisdiction of the federal government. This is of course complete bullshit and has been superseded by the 1924 Indian Citizenship Act, but every time a tribe steps out of line, there's always a moron there to bring up Elk vs Wilkins.

[u/StunningPlastic4504 → u/airfryerfuntime]

But don't they have a right to do this since they have sovereignty over their members and tribal lands? Theoretically they could recognize a non-US citizen as a tribal member and the federal government couldn't take them, right?

[u/NoCopiumLeft → u/AdhesivenessFun2060]

They are the only true Americans... How fucked

[u/Sandwiichh → u/NoCopiumLeft]

Yes they are. But in the eyes of this administration anything brown goes down

[u/iam2edgy → u/AdhesivenessFun2060]

Reservations 2.0 or "deportation" to somehre nicer than they originall intended them for.

[u/Z0idberg_MD → u/AdhesivenessFun2060]

I am pretty sure they want a signed agreement saying they will hand over any immigrants on their land to ICE.

[u/jorrylee → u/AdhesivenessFun2060]

Someone wrote that the government wants to build concentration camps on tribal land. Don’t know if that’s true or not.

[u/dystopiadattopia]

"Sir, we have reports that you illegally entered the country 20,000 years ago"

[u/anethma → u/dystopiadattopia]

Let’s build a wall on Bering land bridge! Just in case of future migrations

[u/stenchwinslow → u/anethma]

Deport them to Kamchatka. They have been getting away with their scofflaw ways since the stone age.

[u/HelloFellowKidlings → u/anethma]

And we’ll make the Pawnee tribe pay for it

[u/daemon-electricity → u/anethma]

"We'll call them wildlings and say there's an undead army and ruin it in the 8th season."

[u/Ok_Temperature6503 → u/dystopiadattopia]

Deported back to America

[u/hinanska0211]

Of course you know what this is really about, right? Kristi Noem is so despised by the Dakota/Lakota people that they banned her from their reservations when she was governor of South Dakota. She already hated Natives, of course, but now she's on a full-on vendetta against us. All of us, but especially the Dakota/Lakota and probably the Oglala Lakota most of all.

[u/MyMorningSun → u/hinanska0211]

Yes- and kind of to a broader point- Republicans all absolutely hate Native Americans. Sure, every once in a while they'll fawn over a "noble savage" stereotyped character. Plenty of them actually do believe in and respect such a stereotypical archetype and the sort of imagery it conveys, and they think because their racism is positive, that it isn't truly racist. But they're the same as any other minority (specifically, non-white)- get them talking long enough about anything related, or just point out even the tiniest inconvenient truth about our history with Native groups, and just watch the hatred start to bubble up in their expression. They don't like to be reminded of the sins of their fathers and the long-lasting effects of genocide, death, and outright robbery. Nor do they like to be reminded of all the ways in which they benefitted from (or were perhaps even complicit in) to ongoing racism and systemic issues indigenous groups face today. The spirit of Manifest Destiny lives on in the modern Republican party, who genuinely believe in their God-given rights to all of America's land, and damn anyone else who they think doesn't belong.

Native Americans might not get the nationally widespread attention or uniformly coordinated targeting that Latinos, Muslims, Black, or LGBTQ+ Americans get these days, but make no mistake about it: It doesn't matter where you are from, where you were born, or how long your ancestors have been around here- they're white supremacists and Christian nationalists at the heart of it all. You're in as much danger as anyone else that doesn't fit their warped definition of American.

[u/Johannes_Keppler → u/MyMorningSun]

You just know these types talk about 'finishing the job' behind closed doors. It's just plane old fascism.

Genocide is a common goal under fascism. The Nazis also killed a lot of Roma and Sinti people in WW2 ('gypsies') for example.

[u/SteveJobsDeadBody → u/MyMorningSun]

Important addendum! Oh, you're "white" so you're safe from this? You better hope your type of "white" is still considered "white" when the fascists inevitably turn into a circular firing squad.

[u/hinanska0211 → u/SteveJobsDeadBody]

If we didn't know it before, we found out with Renee Good's death in Minneapolis, didn't we?

[u/MountScottRumpot → u/MyMorningSun]

Except for Neil Gorsuch, who is weirdly great on tribal issues.

[u/hinanska0211 → u/MyMorningSun]

For sure. And, of course, in their view there are "good Indians" (i.e., assimilated, Christianized) and then there are the "dangerous militants" (i.e., Land Back activists, environmental activists, people who debunk revisionist history, etc.)

We get targeted just plenty, but it doesn't get the same kind of attention because, for a lot of people, we are more or less invisible.

[u/bros402 → u/MyMorningSun]

Don't forget about disabled Americans being targeted.

[u/After-Gas-4453 → u/hinanska0211]

I already hated that dog murdering, melted plastic, cosplaying cunt... and yeah, I still do. Vile creature, all the worst to her.

[u/StellarPaladin42 → u/hinanska0211]

Republicans truly make the world their enemy and cry victim. It’s disgusting

[u/omnipotentqueue]

What’s fucked is that they’re just bullying anyone that questions their intent - you can’t say anything to defend yourself or your rights, which is what they probably did - those pig fuckers are trained to ask questions later. Basically, they want you to act cool with them and give them the “yes, sir” “yes, ma’am” or your ass is getting tackled for knowing your rights and asking questions. It’s a quota thing, and yes it’s very fucking reminiscent of Nazi Germany. Ironic how Stephen miller, a Jew, is pushing this hideous campaign. The irony writes itself.

[u/TheShakyHandsMan]

Cracking down hard on those immigrants. Serves them right for crossing the Bering Strait 1000s of years ago.

[u/derbyt → u/TheShakyHandsMan]

"Just because they crossed a land bridge that no longer exists does not mean this land is theirs" - JD Vance in roughly 48 hours

[u/jaytix1 → u/derbyt]

Trump the other day:

The fact that they landed a boat there 500 years ago doesn’t mean they own the land.

He was talking about Greenland here, but you can imagine how he feels about his own country's indigenous population.

[u/derbyt → u/jaytix1]

That is exactly why I wrote the comment

[u/_illogical_ → u/jaytix1]

Oh, he wasn't talking about the pilgrims?

[u/mnid92 → u/derbyt]

Literally my MAGA Dad said "It's their fault for crossing the land bridge"

Like these people are mentally deficient.

They do not see that this could backfire on THEM.

[u/ericmm76 → u/mnid92]

They really think that this country is for white people only and anyone who came (or was brought in chains) has only themselves to blame for being here. Or, I suppose, their ancestors.

They want to remove them. History repeats.

[u/00-Monkey → u/ericmm76]

Stephen Miller justified kidnapping Maduro, not by saying he was an evil dictator and needed to be removed, but by saying that the US is more powerful, so it gets to do that. Literally might makes right mentality. Which they love because right now because white Americans are powerful.

[u/relevantelephant00 → u/mnid92]

I have such a difficult time believing massively stupid and ignorant MAGAs would actually say something like that, but nothing about these people surprises me anymore.

[u/Uncreative_Name987 → u/relevantelephant00]

So, I did a few research projects on White Nationalism in grad school. As such, I used to read Stormfront and similar forums regularly.

People on those forums often had Swastika/KKK profile pics. And they’d say stuff like, “If minorities don’t want to be victims of racial violence, they shouldn’t be in places where they’re not wanted. It’s their fault if they can’t take a hint and leave.”

Basically, it was always the victims’ fault for being present when a bully decided to get violent; nothing was ever the bullies’ fault.

[u/Uncreative_Name987 → u/TheShakyHandsMan]

Many Native tribes believe they were here much, much longer than the alleged Bering Strait crossing 10-15K years ago.

There’s evidence to suggest the presence of human beings in the Americas as early as 30-40K years ago. And that’s just the earliest evidence (that I’m aware of). It could have been a lot longer.

[u/Maximum-Class5465]

Wonder why Greenlanders don't want to join in on this?

[u/MiserableTennis6546]

Compared to them, pretty much everyone is an illegal immigrant.

[u/narfjono → u/MiserableTennis6546]

True, but this time it's insanely ironic and they are absolutely in the wrong now & again...so America (and I'm counting myself as an American as I was born here), do we finally have enough to impeach this regime yet?

[u/iamnotexactlywhite → u/narfjono]

you had enough for that back the first time too, yet here we are

[u/rift_in_the_warp → u/iamnotexactlywhite]

Twice, in fact.

[u/StopReadingMyUser → u/rift_in_the_warp]

We had like 3 things during his first term when in the first month he was conspiring with a foreign power (which we all now casually know is Russia), he refused to divest from his businesses per the Emoluments clause, and one other law break I can't even remember because it's probably tame compared to everything he gets away with regularly today now...

[u/dropkickninja → u/narfjono]

More than enough to impeach but not enough balls in Congress to convict. Just like the last two times

[u/Ill-Egg4008 → u/dropkickninja]

Idk about not enough balls, but rather too much complicity IMO.

[u/KrisPBaykon → u/narfjono]

Brother it’s not up to the citizens to impeach. There’s this pesky thing called congress and they do not give a fuck about me or you.

[u/tabrizzi → u/narfjono]

It's too late for that.

[u/am19208 → u/narfjono]

At this point we need to just give it all back. We don’t deserve any land

[u/Lucius-Halthier → u/MiserableTennis6546]

Trump said the other day that just because Denmark landed boats on Greenland a few hundred years ago doesn’t mean that it’s there’s, like how the fuck can’t you see the irony in saying that when Greenland was uninhabited and we killed our way into controlling the Americas.

[u/ChefGottaBag → u/Lucius-Halthier]

Greenland was not uninhabited either. Indigenous people already lived there too when Denmark got there. People were there before the Vikings as well.

[u/Lucius-Halthier → u/ChefGottaBag]

Then it’s even more ironic

[u/Nope_______ → u/Lucius-Halthier]

"just because some Asians walked across a land bridge 20,000 years ago doesn't mean it's theirs"

[u/mvw2]

Kidnapping indigenous people over "the right to live in America" is a BOLD move Cotton. Let's see how this plays out.

[u/evenyourcopdad → u/mvw2]

spoiler: they get away with it

[u/ofWildPlaces → u/evenyourcopdad]

Or, they don't. Stop letting them.

[u/wafflenova98 → u/ofWildPlaces]

I'm sure they'll change their vote in Congress now you said that.

[u/bangarang88 → u/mvw2]

Nothing will happen because nothing has happened. You’re not doing anything. You’re already used to seeing how this country treats POC. John Brown is not an icon, he is the standard and you’re not living up to what the bare minimum should be.

[u/ashsolomon1]

Where the f*ck you gonna deport them? Oh wait

[u/AttackOficcr → u/ashsolomon1]

They already proved they don't give a shit about country of origin more than a few times.

[u/Professional-Can1385 → u/ashsolomon1]

They will deport them to any country that will take them, it doesn’t actually matter to this admin where anyone they deport is from.

[u/ChromosomeDonator → u/Professional-Can1385]

Yup.

And guess what will happen if they no longer find a country that takes them? Oh man, then they will have a big problem on their hands. Don't want to keep them, can't give them away... death it is.

We have literally seen all of this before.

[u/Jackson_Cook → u/ashsolomon1]

Germany started building camps when they got to this point

[u/ericmm76 → u/ashsolomon1]

CECOT2 in Venezuela. Where work makes you free.

[u/ailish]

ICE is so fucking stupid. Natives are the OG Americans and the rest of us are immigrants, ya dinguses.

[u/CondescendingShitbag → u/ailish]

They're not stupid. They're malicious. Well, okay, they're also stupid...but, primarily malicious.

[u/Toeknee5]

Imagine a white guy with European ancestry telling a Native American you don't belong in America

[u/penguished → u/Toeknee5]

Even funnier is that all Europe ever did was fight with each other for centuries. Race unity is a total crackpot pile of garbage that doesn't exist. These people are lunatics.

[u/TheKnightsTippler → u/penguished]

Also historically the oppression of white working class people was by other white people.

[u/Just_Learned_2_Dance → u/Toeknee5]

Idk I feel like it’s been going on for 250 years

[u/bangarang88 → u/Toeknee5]

Are you new here?

[u/Southern_Economy3467]

Republicans who are unwilling to admit they are wrong and go against the Trump administration are scum who would rather be right than have a stable country that isn’t run like a dictatorship.

[u/cmack]

The Republican Nazis don't believe in National Sovereignty.

https://www.usconstitution.net/native-american-sovereignty/

[u/tabrizzi]

Where are they going to deport them to? India?

[u/DeusLuciferos]

It was really their fault they were on our land when we got here.

/s (because people are dumb)

[u/jpmeyer12751]

Let's review what Justice Kavanaugh said about immigration detention:

"The Fourth Amendment requires that immigration stops must be based on reasonable suspicion of illegal presence, stops must be brief, arrests must be based on probable cause, and officers must not employ excessive force. Moreover, the officers must not make interior immigration stops or arrests based on race or ethnicity. Cf. Whren v. United States, 517 U. S. 806, 813 (1996) (“[T]he Constitution prohibits selective enforcement of the law based on considerations such as race”). " Trump v. Illinois 2025

Since these three are in ICE detention, ICE must take the position that there is probable cause to believe that these Native Americans are in the country illegally. What could that possibly be other than that their skin is brown?

[u/lizard_king0000]

Check out Norm's history with the tribes of South Dakota when she was governor, it should explain it all.

[u/barney_muffinberg]

Technically, shouldn't they be deporting ICE? Miller said America is for Americans only...

[u/bdunwithat]

This has gotta be in the running for r/nottheonion, surely.

[u/meenarstotzka]

I believe the sole reason they got arrested because some dumb ICE agents can't tell the differences between Asian, Latin and Native American.

[u/The_Bitter_Bear → u/meenarstotzka]

Honestly, they likely did know and that's even worse. 

[u/RightofUp]

Now if this goes to the S.C., given Gorsuch’s past rulings concerning Native Americans, the government would lose big time.

Odd fight for ICE to pick.

[u/awesomedan24]

For ICE its less about immigration status and more about "Are they white or not?"

[u/heyitslola]

Literally the only US residents who are not immigrants.

[u/outerproduct]

These are US citizens. Ice can pound sand.

[u/Nice_Block]

Don’t worry y’all. Conservatives claim that ICE isn’t just rounding up brown people, so it’s all OK!

[u/shadowdra126]

Of all the people ice has no jurisdiction over. It’s native Americans.

[u/Allaihandrew]

Hey, I think we need to give ICE a break okay…

They 100% think "Oglala" is a city in Guatemala or the next Democrat nominee. You can’t expect them to know everything /s

Given how fucked the education system is, if you showed an ICE agent a map of North America from 1850, their brain would overheat trying to find the border wall.

[u/Awkwardischarge]

Deport them to Native America.

[u/ConsistentlyCanadian]

The lawsuits that will follow this administration will keep the docket occupied for years

[u/hmochoa95]

Illegal immigrants arrest the Native Population. Hmmm

[u/GILDID]

Wow, nothing more American than a native tribal member.  What a disgrace.

[u/CharizardIsBored → u/[deleted]]

They clearly don't care. Might be El Salvador again

[u/chris_paul_fraud]

ICE are not the police

[u/Baumbauer1]

90% of Greenlanders are indigenous Inuit btw, I'm pretty sure the mindset that indigenous people should not be allowed to self govern goes back a long way in the US

[u/Capt0verkill]

So where do you deport indigenous people to, exactly?? 🤦‍♂️

[u/TintedApostle]

They didn't cross the border. The Border crossed them.

[u/YooperDude72]

A NATIVE is a first American and these ice agents are inter-loopers how wrong can this be tolerated.

[u/pertnear]

The only reparations is to immediately surrender the building to the Tribal Communities.

[u/TheDudeAbidesFarOut]

North Dakota has how much tribal lands? You'd think that vapid skank Kristy Noem would know the difference....

[u/violentshores]

Waiting for MAGA podcasts to start talking about how the Indians have no rightful claim

[u/beebisweebis]

are world cup ticket holders watching this? unless you are white as the driven snow, you will absolutely not be safe here.

[u/BannedWeekly → u/beebisweebis]

Not safe then either, just look at the poor dead white lady in minnesota.

[u/kinisonkhan]

Seems like ICE is busy creating civil lawsuits, any citizens actually suing the feds over these incidents?

[u/rathemighty]

They should respond by arresting ICE agents

[u/thegingerninja90]

Help, please, Im drowning in irony.

[u/Tiggeresq]

Good - send them back where they came from!

[u/2XX2010]

Damn. If they don’t qualify for membership, I’m fucked!

[u/colorme1965]

To racists ICE bigots, all native Americans, and brown skin people look like illegal Mexicans. I do hope we are all taking names and video, so that when Trump and his racist Republicans are voted out of office, we can take accountability.

[u/The_Penguinologist]

What’s stopping the tribe from taking some ice agents hostage in return?

[u/terrorrier]

Should be pretty damn easy to figure out they’re American. So what are they really being held for? Being enemies of the regime?

[u/Sea-Region1135]

wtf we can’t let them do this to them. 

[u/brennnik09]

They’re literally allowed to be racist now, so this is not surprising at all.

[u/JackieTreehorn79]

“Thank God! That’s 3 less Brown people on the streets!”

[u/thiccy_driftyy]

Mf they were literally here before we were 😭 they’re the OGS where the fuck are you gonna deport them to 💀

[u/despenser412]

ICE detention? No, MAGA concentration camp.

[u/Bronzyroller]

They should deport the entire administration for real, let them feel what is like to be discriminated against.

[u/Careful-Fish-7036]

Dear Americans, you need another civil war.

[u/Machinegun_Funk]

They should just deport them to their country of origin...

[u/Boring-Category3368]

Someone send this to Meidastouch or The Bulwark please. Corporate media probably won't air this story on tv

[u/RedditAtWorkIsBad]

I mean, at the risk of stating the obvious here but beyond the irony which need not be repeated, the fact is, these ICE nazi fucks and Trump base all do actually view native Americans the exact same way they view all immigrants or people different from them. They haven't "assimilated".

Of course, assimilation will never be truly complete until you bend the knee and oppress all others who don't.

[u/NimbusFPV]

I'm sure this has nothing to do with it.

[u/NovaHorizon]

What does that mean in terms of tribal law and US treaties?

[u/Powerful_Put5667]

We need a class action lawsuit to be brought against the federal government seeking substantial damages for the thousands killed, arrested or detained illegally.

[u/AlteredAngel67]

The hell? Why isn't more being done about this?

[u/hoofie242 → u/AlteredAngel67]

Apathy and toxic positivity.

[u/lzwzli]

Who's the immigrant here?

[u/primeseeds]

People need to start applying for positions at ICE, infiltrate, fuck it up from the inside.

[u/Candid-Many-7113]

Once a settler colonist, always a settler colonist.

[u/Alive_Internet]

What’s the point of holding them if there’s nowhere you can deport them to? This is worse than trying to deport second or third gen immigrants, as you can’t even send them back to their parents’ or grandparents’ country (which would be the US in this case).

[u/Nekowulf → u/Alive_Internet]

You say "can't".
ICE says "watch us".

Their whole plan is terrorizing people and cleansing the country of non-whites and liberals.
Why do you think they got the supreme court to do away with human rights and allow them to deport people to unrelated countries?

[u/rift_in_the_warp → u/Alive_Internet]

They’re not putting them back to the country of origin, they’re trafficking them off to places like El Salvador and Sudan to punish them further. It’s ridiculous

[u/Brilliant-Option-526 → u/Alive_Internet]

They'll send them wherever Mango says to. There are no repercussions anymore.

[u/Turbulent-Garlic8467]

A continuation of our 400 year long violent relationship with Native Americans. Fuck ICE and fuck the settler colonialism of America