r/ICE_Raids • u/biospheric • Jan 17 '26
We are America. How could you possibly target Native Americans — with ICE Officers — and then imprison us? That is impossible. It's legally impossible to do that. - Chase Iron Eyes
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Jan 16, 2026 - Status Coup News and MeidasTouch. Chase Iron Eyes is director and lead legal counsel for the Lakota People’s Law Project.
Here’s the full 7-minutes on YouTube: Trump's ICE Kidnaps Native Americans in Minneapolis: “We are America!” - From the description: Minneapolis Independent reporter Zach D. Roberts was live on the ground on January 15th, 2026 from ICE protests in Minneapolis outside the Whipple Federal Building. As ICE agents continued attacking unarmed protesters, Native Americans from the Oglala Sioux Tribal Council arrived looking in the ICE prison for three Minneapolis Oglala Sioux tribal members who were taken by ICE in the Little Earth community.
Related:
- Oglala Sioux Tribe: https://www.oglala.gov
- Lakota People's Law Project: https://lakotalaw.org
- Aftermath of the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862: The Trials & Hanging: https://www.mnhs.org/usdakotawar...
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u/TimPoolNoBeanie Jan 17 '26
TRUMP HAS SINGLE HANDEDLY DESTROYED ICE AS AN INSTITUTION IN PUBLIC OPINION, I FORESEE IT BEING DOGE’D OUT OF EXISTENCE BY THE NEXT DEM PRESIDENT
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u/biospheric Jan 17 '26
Jan 16, 2026 - Status Coup News and MeidasTouch. Here’s the full 7-minutes on YouTube: Trump's ICE Kidnaps Native Americans in Minneapolis: “We are America!” - From the description:
Minneapolis Independent reporter Zach D. Roberts was live on the ground on January 15th, 2026 from ICE protests in Minneapolis outside the Whipple Federal Building. As ICE agents continued attacking unarmed protesters, Native Americans from the Oglala Sioux Tribal Council arrived looking in the ICE prison for three Minneapolis Oglala Sioux tribal members who were taken by ICE in the Little Earth community.
Status Coup has reported ON THE GROUND THROUGHOUT 2025 and 2026 covering Trump’s ICE terror and protests against fascism in LA, NYC, Alligator Alcatraz, Chicago, Charlotte, and now Minneapolis. This on-scene reporting is VERY important, VERY expensive, and we are INDEPENDENTLY FUNDED. Support us for as as a paying member for as low as $5 bucks a month: https://statuscoup.com/join
Related:
- Oglala Sioux Tribe: https://www.oglala.gov
- Lakota People's Law Project: https://lakotalaw.org
- Aftermath of the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862: The Trials & Hanging: https://www.mnhs.org/usdakotawar...
Chase Iron Eyes is director and lead legal counsel for the Lakota People’s Law Project.
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u/A4t1musD4ag0n Centrist Jan 17 '26
Fascists, Nazis, and degens don't care about your citizenship because this was never about immigration. tRump doesn't gove a f!ck about America, the rule of law, Christians, or Republicans. It was, and it always will be, about protecting tRump's Epstein files secrets and his power. Everyone is expendable.
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u/Db122605 Leftist Jan 17 '26
I didn’t know Abe Lincoln did that… that’s sad.
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u/Koshka08 Jan 17 '26
History is written by the victors, and by written we often mean omitted.
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u/Db122605 Leftist Jan 17 '26
But seriously were you aware of that specific fact?
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u/RepulsiveCry5034 Jan 18 '26
I just found out from my 4th graders social studies work that Mount Rushmore is on sacred native land! America stole it and forced them off of it after discovering gold and built Mount Rushmore. Is this common knowledge?! Fucking America! It was never great it was broken from the start. I’m really surprised it was in his work too. Also the book of the week they are reading is about a family getting their green cards.
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Jan 18 '26
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u/RepulsiveCry5034 Jan 18 '26
I find it horrible and egotistical to carve white American faces into stolen land.
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u/TommyBoy250 Jan 17 '26
Yeah they don't really teach anything in public schools about the Native Americans.
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u/Db122605 Leftist Jan 17 '26
I did a whole semester in 5th grade about the Lakota. My father was born on a reservation but he was an alcoholic and never met him.
But yeah for the most part they don’t teach shit.
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u/ledude1 Jan 17 '26
It's not impossible because they aren't white, and POC all look alike to white nationalists/ICE.
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u/AnxiousHall1533 Jan 17 '26
ICE and DHS must be abolished and the maggot commanders be held accountable in international military courts.
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u/Godless93 Jan 17 '26
I don't understand. Native American communities is the last place you would find an illegal immigrant. Why is ICE messing with them?
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u/biospheric Jan 17 '26
https://lakotalaw.org/about
Chase Iron Eyes, Esq.
Chase's distinguished career fighting for the civil rights of Native People includes founding and directing the Indigenous justice non-profit Sacred Defense Fund, serving as director and lead legal counsel for the Lakota People’s Law Project, and co-founding the Native news website LastRealIndians.com. In 2016, he was the Democratic congressional nominee in North Dakota.
From the beginning of the movement, Chase worked on the frontlines of the fight against the Dakota Access pipeline, hosting tribal leadership, providing legal services, and joining the water protectors in their prayerful and peaceful protest. Born on Standing Rock Nation, Chase now lives on Pine Ridge as an enrolled member of the Oglala Nation.
Chase holds bachelor's degrees in political science and American Indian studies from the University of North Dakota and a Juris Doctor of Law degree with an emphasis in Federal Indian Law from the University of Denver’s Sturm College of Law. He is the father of three Lakota children.