As Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity surges nationwide under President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign, some Native Americans have been detained alongside immigrants.
And while Republicans acknowledge that it’s wrong, they won’t provide an answer as to how Congress or the Trump administration could prevent it from happening. Instead, they say that the detainment of Native Americans — and other U.S. citizens — is part of a broader operation in which, as Rep. Addison McDowell put it, “There will be mistakes.”
“That’s not great if that’s happening,” Mc-Dowell, a member of the House Committee on Natural Resources’ subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs, said. He added that there are “millions” of people who need to be deported and that “it’s not going to be a perfect process trying to get all of them out.”
