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    3 days ago

    Above that,

    “We now know that Navajo people and enrolled members of other tribes are being detained in Phoenix and other cities by ICE,” Navajo Nation Council Speaker Crystalyne Curley said during a committee meeting on Thursday. “The reports that we have received indicate that we need to coordinate an operation or some type of response to help our enrolled tribal members here on the Navajo Nation.”

    On Thursday, Navajo tribal leaders reported that they have received calls and text messages from Navajo people living in urban areas who have been stopped, questioned or detained by ICE.

    State Sen. Theresa Hatathlie joined the committee meeting virtually and shared her report and concerns in Navajo. Hatathlie represents the Legislative District 6, which encompasses the Navajo Nation.

    Hatathlie reported to the Council that she received a call about a case involving eight Navajo citizens who were detained for hours with no cell phones or ability to contact their families or tribes.

    So, multiple elected officials are independently saying in public they’ve received multiple reports of this happening, one is saying he hasn’t been able to speak to anyone who was detained or get any information out of ICE about what they’ve done. Since ICE and other federal agencies will lie about this stuff there are going to be a lot of situations where we can’t verify exactly what was done to whom right away.