As the Trump administration searches for more space to detain immigrants, it is approaching Washington tribes to see if they will participate.
The Nisqually Tribal Council said in a statement Friday evening it learned that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been talking to one of its staff members without consulting the council.
The council said it also discovered ICE has been reaching out to other tribal governments and cities in Washington in an attempt to secure detention space.
For its part, the Nisqually Indian Tribe, whose reservation lies east of Olympia and which has a 288-bed correctional facility built in part with federal funds, is telling ICE no, according to the council.
“The Nisqually people are not in favor of, nor will the tribal council allow, the detention of individuals by ICE on our reservation or in our facilities,” said Tribal Chair E.K. Choke in the statement.
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They should lead the ICE agents into the cell, lock it, and say, “immigrants contained. You’re welcome.”
Hello, Native people living on the small pockets of land we forced you upon and begrudgingly gave you sovereignty over after invading and claiming all your lands for ourselves. Will you you hold all these people prisoner for us? They are invading our lands that used to be your lands. And that’s just not OK. You get it, right?
They won’t even assimilate with the local culture properly. Some don’t even speak the local language. And as soon as they have kids born here, they act like they have a right to be here. It’s really frustrating, know what I mean? There skin isn’t even the same color as mine! And I can’t tell if they are Christian or not because every 4th one is named Jesus, so who knows who they are worshipping.
Anyway, do me a solid will you? You owe me a favor since we agreed to stop stealing your kids and beating their culture out of them! You’re welcome, by the way. I never did see a thank you card.
Thafuq they trying to do, double stack the rezs? Fucking assclowns. Some gaspacho idiot’s gonna get shot like the trespasser he is.
Hey, you people whose land we stole! Can we use some your little remaining land we so generously let you keep to detain people we want to kick out of what is now rightfully our land, and definitely not yours or theirs?
So obscene. Cretins.
This is why there are no good billionaires. Because I’d buy a chunk of land, put some fences around it for protection, take people in and feed them, house them, improve their lives, give them opportunities.
Oh God…the recursive kaleidoscope of irony has entered an infinite loop!
You’re not wrong.
Something tells me they won’t be “asking” in the future.
