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Tina Smith: “They [ICE agents] can't tell the difference between a Native…”

Featuring: Tina Smith, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Minnesota

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Published | Video Starts at 02:52

Community. I mean, just think for a minute that you have ICE agents looking to arrest and detain Native people who are. It's incredible. Like, they don't. They [ICE agents] can't tell the difference between a Native person and somebody that they think came from...Central America. I don't even understand that. They don't have no idea of, you know, sovereignty or any of that. Any of that stuff. But anyway, so here they are in Little Earth. (02:52–16:06)

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Asserts that ICE agents are unable to distinguish between Native people and Central Americans.

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