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SeattleVet

(5,798 posts)
Thu Nov 27, 2025, 02:46 PM Thursday

Elaine 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/

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Elaine Miles (Marilyn from 'Northern Exposure'), detained by ICE; told her tribal ID was fake! (Original Post) SeattleVet Thursday OP
Disgraceful Bayard Thursday #1
Good one. Joinfortmill Thursday #11
Yes, Excellent❗ Duppers Friday #21
Indeed❗ Duppers Friday #22
They have been going after Native people --- Bread and Circuses Thursday #2
Quotas & bonuses do not make for good law enforcement Attilatheblond Thursday #4
Hitler's Gestapo and SS popsdenver Thursday #15
"The comment thread on this story has been closed because too many recent comments were violating our Code of Conduct" muriel_volestrangler Thursday #3
Considering the Seattle Times comment section... regnaD kciN Thursday #5
Another victim of the Trump Klux Klan. RedWhiteBlueIsRacist Thursday #6
Sue them !!!!!!!!! Trueblue1968 Thursday #7
This needs to go out to the public with a loud scream! FarPoint Thursday #8
Were the comments telling her to go back to where she came from? LiberalArkie Thursday #9
K & R for exposure SunSeeker Thursday #10
Add that to the harassment KT2000 Thursday #12
Miller scraped the bottom of a deep and rancid smelling barrel for ICE agents Warpy Thursday #13
Disgusting MustLoveBeagles Thursday #14
Eff 'em. electric_blue68 Thursday #16
ICE gets their bounty whether it was a "valid" arrest or not. MurrayDelph Thursday #17
That's an amazingly wonderful idea... SeattleVet Thursday #19
The law suits against ICE will be wild !!!! uponit7771 Thursday #18
Movie trivia LearnedHand Thursday #20

Bread and Circuses

(1,452 posts)
2. They have been going after Native people ---
Thu Nov 27, 2025, 02:52 PM
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— more often than not. This is intimidation and brutish .

popsdenver

(1,241 posts)
15. Hitler's Gestapo and SS
Thu Nov 27, 2025, 05:22 PM
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did not have ANY rules..........

This shit is deplorable...........

muriel_volestrangler

(105,326 posts)
3. "The comment thread on this story has been closed because too many recent comments were violating our Code of Conduct"
Thu Nov 27, 2025, 02:56 PM
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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)
5. Considering the Seattle Times comment section...
Thu Nov 27, 2025, 03:26 PM
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…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.

FarPoint

(14,393 posts)
8. This needs to go out to the public with a loud scream!
Thu Nov 27, 2025, 04:03 PM
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MSM is no longer journalism.....We must access trusted new podcasts etc to spread the information of ICE horrible abuse.

KT2000

(21,864 posts)
12. Add that to the harassment
Thu Nov 27, 2025, 04:12 PM
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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)
13. Miller scraped the bottom of a deep and rancid smelling barrel for ICE agents
Thu Nov 27, 2025, 04:46 PM
Thursday

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.

MurrayDelph

(5,700 posts)
17. ICE gets their bounty whether it was a "valid" arrest or not.
Thu Nov 27, 2025, 05:55 PM
Thursday

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)
19. That's an amazingly wonderful idea...
Thu Nov 27, 2025, 11:33 PM
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but it will unfortunately never happen under the Miller/tRump regime.

The cruelty is the point.

LearnedHand

(5,196 posts)
20. Movie trivia
Thu Nov 27, 2025, 11:55 PM
Thursday

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.

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