Reports of Navajo people being detained in immigration sweeps sparks concern from tribal leaders

[douglas9]

The DOJ argued in court that Indigenous people don’t have birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment, so neither should children of noncitizens born in the US

As U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement intensifies its efforts to apprehend and deport undocumented immigrants throughout the country, concern is rising among Indigenous communities residing in urban areas about reports of Indigenous people being detained in the Valley.

Since President Donald Trump issued his executive order for an increase in ICE raids, Navajo tribal leaders have received alarming reports that their tribal members are being detained, heightening uncertainties over the implications these actions have for their communities and the safety of their people.

“We now know that Navajo people and enrolled members of other tribes are being detained in Phoenix and other cities by ICE,” Navajo Nation Council Speaker Crystalyne Curley said during a committee meeting on Thursday. “The reports that we have received indicate that we need to coordinate an operation or some type of response to help our enrolled tribal members here on the Navajo Nation.”

On Thursday, Navajo tribal leaders reported that they have received calls and text messages from Navajo people living in urban areas who have been stopped, questioned or detained by ICE. Those reports sparked outrage among Navajo Nation Council members and prompted a detailed discussion of the topic during a Naabik’íyáti’ Committee meeting.


https://azmirror.com/2025/01/24/reports-of-navajo-people-being-detained-in-immigration-sweeps-sparks-concern-from-tribal-leaders/

[Lovie777]

1. This can't be?..............

[KarenS]

2. words fail me. nt

[Mike 03]

3. Extremely disturbing and infuriating

Michelangelo Signorile discussed this yesterday on his program. He discussed the ineptitude of the ICE agents who apparently had little to no experience evaluating the IDs of Native Americans, and he pointed out that the IDs vary from tribe to tribe. What a clusterf*ck.

Really heartened to see a post about this topic on DU. I hope we can get updates and follow this as these raids unfold.

[Irish_Dem]

4. Only white Christian males will be citizens.

The rest of us will not be citizens or considered human.

[3Hotdogs]

10. I am a white male, born in N.J. I was on a Greyhound bus at Indio, California, and asked for my immigration papers.

I was Christian at that time. BUT IT WAS STILL SCARY. All I had, was a N.J. driver's license.

My Italian genes caused the mixup? Or maybe it was my 15% Aryan genes, as pointed out by 23 + me.

[Irish_Dem]

11. We will have to carry our DNA profile with us at all times.

Along with our passport, birth certificate, driver's license, voter's registration, etc.

And women will have to be ready for a genital check before they enter a restroom.

[dem4decades]

5. Wasn't there a story here reporting that Trump made gains in getting tribal votes? The old FAFO would apply if true.

[Clouds Passing]

27. Skewed poll. Natives voted Dem.

[Evolve Dammit]

6. Unconstitutional abuse of power and illegal? Disgusting in any case

[sop]

7. Racial profiling.

[no_hypocrisy]

8. Native Americans ARE recognized as American citizens.

Treaties.
They aren't "aliens".
They can vote.
They can't be deported as "undocumented immigrants".
Their ancestors preceded the European settlors.

Another question:
Will TSF order research on all our ancestors who immigrated to the U.S., but didn't "naturalize" and then claim WE'RE unlawfully residing in the U.S.?

[robleb]

12. Where?

Deported? Where in the hell would you deport Native Americans to? America?

[no_hypocrisy]

13. Exactly. They're already restricted to small areas of land.

[Dr. T]

9. And where would

ICE deport Native Americans to? Their country of origin is here. I suppose the point is to harass and terrorize.

[HarryM]

15. Exactly

These bass turds need to be deposed. Forget impeachment in 2 years. When are people gonna wake the hell up and REVOLT!

[orangecrush]

14. Wounded Knee comes to mind.

[mokeyz]

24. Little Big Horn

comes to my mind

[GiqueCee]

16. The malicious abuse of Original Americans...

... is never ending, but the evil monster defiling the Oval Office – for now – has upped the ante exponentially. He and his SS goons are wiping the asses with the Constitution. There have to be consequences. Cowardly courts and sniveling legislators have given him a pass far too often.

[mtngirl47]

17. Everyone needs to be able to show their papers.

Every.One.

[bronxiteforever]

18. When will our government

ever just leave these people alone? Good God, there is no end to it.

[FailureToCommunicate]

19. Unless your ancestors look like this...

[3Hotdogs]

28. Don't know about you, but I remember what those people tried to do to John Wayne on his documentary, Stagecoach.

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Yes Louise, it's sarcasm.

[70sEraVet]

20. The ineptitude of tRump's DOJ on display --

“The United States’ connection with the children of illegal aliens and temporary visitors is weaker than its connection with members of Indian tribes,” DOJ argued in a filing. “If the latter link is insufficient for birthright citizenship, the former certainly is,” the Trump administration argued.”

The DOJ cited an 1884 U.S. Supreme Court case, Elk v. Wilkins, in which the high court decided that “because members of Indian tribes owe ‘immediate allegiance’ to their tribes, they are not ‘subject to the jurisdiction’ of the United States and are not constitutionally entitled to Citizenship.”

But the DOJ ignored congressional action, the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924, that explicitly gave Indigenous people U.S. birthright citizenship and effectively ended the rejection of citizenship that the Supreme Court had upheld four decades earlier.

(same article)

Their argument must have pissed the judge off, royally.

[Botany]

21. Native Americans are Americans end of story

This is madness.

[surfered]

22. To which country do they deport them? The one they originated from? A circular process?

Insane!

[DFW]

23. Talk about setting the clock back 150 years.

If Native American tribe members use firearms on European-Americans trying to kidnap them illegally, isn’t that the classic definition of self-defense?

[Biglinda 52]

25. Where would

they send them to??

[PatSeg]

26. No matter how bad I think it could be,

somehow he manages to exceed my every expectation. I am horrified every day.

[Bayard]

29. Sheer insanity

Do they think Indigenous people are Mexicans because they have black hair and darker skin?

I have a tshirt with a picture of Geronimo on it saying--"Show Me Your Papers." trump's grandfather was an immigrant, so was his wife, and his partner in crime, The Muskrat. Unless you are Indigenous, your ancestry is immigrant. I would say the hypocrisy and racism is astounding, but nothing is anymore.

[ThoughtCriminal]

30. Send 'em back where they came from!

"Then we kicked them off there. I guess we’re gonna send ‘em back where they came from. Yeah, we bought the Bering Strait theory. “Put the Welfare people to work filling in the Bering Strait and charge them Indians a buck a head to send ‘em home. It’s a good sound business solution.” - George Carlin

[Daleuhlmann]

31. This Is Illegal

How can this action possibly be legal? Trump's deportations specifically exclude Native Americans.

[struggle4progress]

32. 8 USC 1401

The following shall be nationals and citizens of the United States at birth ...

(b)a person born in the United States to a member of an Indian, Eskimo, Aleutian, or other aboriginal tribe: Provided, That the granting of citizenship under this subsection shall not in any manner impair or otherwise affect the right of such person to tribal or other property ...

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1401

[Martin68]

33. Racists make no distinctions. They mistake Native Americans for Hispanics, and Sikhs for Muslims.

"Shoot first an d let God sort it out later" is their motto.

[4catsmom]

34. where are they going to fly them?

Manhattan? Please tell me that ICE isn't this stupid, though every indication is otherwise