Some Native Americans seek documentation amid concerns about ICE enforcement

Native Americans, literally the furthest thing from immigrants, fear deportation amid unprecedented ICE actions

When U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement flooded Minneapolis, Shane Mantz dug his Choctaw Nation citizenship card out of a box on his dresser and slid it into his wallet. Some strangers mistake the pest-control company manager for Latino, he said, and he fears getting caught up in ICE raids. Like Mantz, many Native Americans are carrying tribal documents proving their U.S. citizenship in case they are stopped or questioned by federal immigr…

Fearing ICE, Native Americans rush to prove their right to belong

As Native Americans around the country rush to secure documents proving their right to live in the United States, many see a bitter irony.

Fearing ICE, Native Americans rush to prove they’re US citizens

Many Native Americans are carrying tribal documents proving their U.S. citizenship in case they are stopped or questioned by federal immigration agents.

Fearing ICE, Native Americans rush to prove their right to belong in U.S.

Many of the people whose ancestors lived in the U.S. thousands of years before Europeans are carrying tribal identification for protection against the Trump administration’s anti-immigration agenda.

Native nations make it easier to get tribal IDs as community fears ICE, fight to prove their right to belong in U.S.

Many of the people whose ancestors lived in the U.S. thousands of years before Europeans arrived are carrying tribal identification for protection against the Trump administration’s anti-immigration agenda.