Ruben Gallego: “Native Americans have been pulled over and have been held…”

“We know what happens when you empower, you know, law enforcement to go after people just based on color. And they're going to go after all the brown people. And that includes our Native Americans. Native Americans have been pulled over and have been held and detained in Arizona because, you know, some untrained ICE or Border Patrol agent has assumed that they were in this country illegally. And many of them do not carry birth certificates because of the nature of how they're born and raised on the reservations. This is what people are very worried about.” (05:23–05:34)

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