Trump Admin Deletes Report On Missing Natives, No 'Big, Beautiful Wall' For Them
In 2018, the Trump administration saw fit to scrub a critical report from the Department of Justice website detailing the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. While mainstream outlets often frame such removals as bureaucratic oversights or mere political 'prioritization,' the context here is sharper: this is an administration that vocally championed border security and 'law
and order' for *some* populations. The silence on this crisis—where Indigenous women face murder rates ten times the national average, often at the hands of non-Native perpetrators—was a policy choice. It's a convenient memory hole for a nation-state built on their displacement. One might almost think the lives of Native Americans are deemed less worthy of official concern, particularly when their
suffering can't be easily weaponized for electoral gain or isn't perpetrated by a convenient foreign 'other.' The historical echo is deafening: another deliberate erasure of Indigenous existence, another chapter in the ongoing narrative of official neglect. Apparently, some 'law and order' applies only to those deemed part of 'us.'