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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsElaine Miles (Marilyn from 'Northern Exposure'), detained by ICE; told her tribal ID was fake!
Elaine Miles was walking to a bus stop in Redmond to go to Target, she said, when four men wearing masks and vests with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement label stepped out of two black SUVs with no front plates and pressed her for her ID.
Miles, an Indigenous actor best known for her roles in Northern Exposure, Smoke Signals, Wyvern and The Last of Us, handed them her tribal ID from the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation in Oregon.
Federal government agencies recognize tribal ID as a valid form of identification, and Miles has used it to travel back and forth to Canada and Mexico without any issues.
Yet, Miles recalled one agent calling it fake.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/indigenous-actress-elaine-miles-says-ice-called-her-tribal-id-fake/
Bayard
(28,075 posts)ICE should be required to carry ID showing whether they are human, or not.
Joinfortmill
(19,705 posts)Duppers
(28,453 posts)Duppers
(28,453 posts)Bread and Circuses
(1,452 posts) more often than not. This is intimidation and brutish .
Attilatheblond
(7,951 posts)popsdenver
(1,241 posts)did not have ANY rules..........
This shit is deplorable...........
muriel_volestrangler
(105,326 posts)and I doubt that was "fuck ICE", though that would be richly deserved. There'll have been idiot racists.
It's appalling the Native Americans get the "do not escalate" advice, while the ICE thugs remain masked and unidentified, and won't attempt to phone to check the ID they ignorantly think is fake, but try to snatch her phone instead.
The irony of this story appearing on Thanksgiving is huge.
regnaD kciN
(27,390 posts)is populated by the kinds of people who probably think Newsmax is too woke, the fact that they had to close it this time speaks volumes.
RedWhiteBlueIsRacist
(1,600 posts)Trueblue1968
(18,993 posts)FarPoint
(14,393 posts)MSM is no longer journalism.....We must access trusted new podcasts etc to spread the information of ICE horrible abuse.
LiberalArkie
(19,146 posts)SunSeeker
(57,358 posts)KT2000
(21,864 posts)of the Indigenous firefighters in the Olympic National Forest.
We have a bully police force operating outside the law and no one is doing anything about it.
Warpy
(114,299 posts)and apparently the only qualification was to be an ignorant, semiliterate lout who is determined to make the rest of us look bad.
My apologies to Ms. Miles.
MustLoveBeagles
(14,117 posts)electric_blue68
(25,213 posts)MurrayDelph
(5,700 posts)Personally, I think ICE should be disbanded, but if they aren't going to do that they should institute a policy:
"Valid" arrest: receive bounty
"Invalid" arrest: have to pay 2x bounty back (half to gov, half to victim along with an apology)
SeattleVet
(5,798 posts)but it will unfortunately never happen under the Miller/tRump regime.
The cruelty is the point.
uponit7771
(93,434 posts)LearnedHand
(5,196 posts)If you saw Smoke Signals, Elaine Miles was the res teen driving the car in reverse (the forward gear was out). In The Last of Us, she was the woman (along with her man) whose house they visited on the way out west.