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Traditional tribal grouping within the Lakota people
Several federally recognized tribes and tribal leaders publicly reported encounters, questioning, and detentions by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during the early 2025 raids — most fr...
There is no sign in the reporting provided of a publicly available, comprehensive ICE dataset that tracks detentions specifically of Native Americans or enrolled tribal citizens over the last five yea...
Recent reporting documents multiple incidents in which ICE agents detained or questioned Native American tribal members during enforcement actions—most prominently in Minneapolis—prompting tribal lead...
Over the past five years tribal leaders and legal groups have reported multiple encounters in which enrolled Native Americans were stopped, questioned, or detained by or local agencies acting in conce...
Recent administrations have indeed shifted ICE policy and practice in ways that affect tribal lands: the Biden-era DHS issued a 2022 directive formalizing tribal consultation (Directive #071-04), whil...