Mexico was already patrollng its own border
as for people being deported en masse?
how about people being harassed en masse?
The Trump administration’s intensified deportation efforts have created unexpected challenges for Navajo citizens living in urban areas like Phoenix. As the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) began widespread raids in major cities across ...
nativenewsonline.net
I wonder how this is happening in a country where racism vanished ages ago according to someone who has never been here and thinks they glean what there is to know about everything and everyone and their experiences from using the internet.
__________________Despite possessing Certificates of Indian Blood (CIBs) and state-issued IDs, several individuals have been detained or questioned by ICE agents who do not recognize these documents as valid proof of citizenship._________________ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and that's just one out of 574 federally recognized tribes like the person from another tribe who originally told me about this happening to people in their tribe also being harassed and detained!
Many Indigenous elders struggle to prove they were born here in the first place.
It's hard for them to get an ID. It's hard for them to get documents that prove they were born at home, in a hogan.
I suppose it serves them right for not recognizing the concept of illegal alien in the first place unlike the settler colonial state, a nation founded by continually dispossessing indigenous peoples from their lands while overwriting native histories with an “enlightened”, multicultural narrative. The hypocrisy of this nation subsequently enforcing deportation policy against vulnerable groups.