ICE Discovers Original Americans Not Foreign, For Now
Newsweek highlighted how ICE’s relentless deportation machine almost 'repatriated' a Native American man, Joel Doe, who was born on tribal land in Oklahoma. The agency, apparently, initially considered him a 'foreigner' due to his lack of U.S. birth certificate, despite his familial lineage on this land predating the very concept of U.S. citizenship. One has to wonder: where, precisely, did ICE
plan to 'deport' him? Back across the Bering Strait? This bureaucratic blunder exposes the foundational absurdity of borders, particularly when applied to Indigenous peoples. The U.S. government, which spent centuries forcibly removing and confining Native Americans, now struggles to recognize their inherent right to exist on their ancestral lands without a document the colonizers created. It's
the ultimate 'we stole your land, now show us your papers' irony.