Elaine Miles (Marilyn from 'Northern Exposure'), detained by ICE; told her tribal ID was fake!

[SeattleVet]

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]

1. Disgraceful

ICE should be required to carry ID showing whether they are human, or not.

[Joinfortmill]

11. Good one.

[Duppers]

21. Yes, Excellent❗

[Duppers]

22. Indeed❗

[Bread and Circuses]

2. They have been going after Native people ---

— more often than not. This is intimidation and brutish .

[Attilatheblond]

4. Quotas & bonuses do not make for good law enforcement

[popsdenver]

15. Hitler's Gestapo and SS

did not have ANY rules..........

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

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. "The comment thread on this story has been closed because too many recent comments were violating our Code of Conduct"

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]

5. Considering the Seattle Times comment section...

…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]

6. Another victim of the Trump Klux Klan.

[Trueblue1968]

7. Sue them !!!!!!!!!

[FarPoint]

8. This needs to go out to the public with a loud scream!

MSM is no longer journalism.....We must access trusted new podcasts etc to spread the information of ICE horrible abuse.

[LiberalArkie]

9. Were the comments telling her to go back to where she came from?

[SunSeeker]

10. K & R for exposure

[KT2000]

12. Add that to the harassment

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]

13. Miller scraped the bottom of a deep and rancid smelling barrel for ICE agents

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. Disgusting

[electric_blue68]

16. Eff 'em.

[MurrayDelph]

17. ICE gets their bounty whether it was a "valid" arrest or not.

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]

19. That's an amazingly wonderful idea...

but it will unfortunately never happen under the Miller/tRump regime.

The cruelty is the point.

[uponit7771]

18. The law suits against ICE will be wild !!!!

[LearnedHand]

20. Movie trivia

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.