Oglala Sioux Tribe president says three tribal citizens transferred to ICE facility
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Key Points:
- The president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, Frank Star Comes Out, has demanded the immediate release of four tribal members detained by ICE agents in Minneapolis, emphasizing that enrolled tribal members are U.S. citizens and outside immigration jurisdiction.
- Three of the detained members were transferred to an ICE facility at Fort Snelling, which holds a painful historical significance for Indigenous people as a former military outpost where Dakota people were imprisoned during the 1862 Dakota War.
- The tribe criticized the Department of Homeland Security for withholding information about the detainees unless the tribe entered into an immigration agreement with ICE, which the tribe has refused to do.
- The detained individuals were reportedly experiencing homelessness and living under a bridge in Minneapolis; one of the four has since been
