First Nations at risk: ICE is targeting Indigenous Canadians

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CTV News reported that Canadians are not safe from ICE harassment and detainment. The news outlet reports that The Blood Tribe First Nation located in southern Alberta close to Lethbridge has reported incidences of members of the tribe being both stopped and detained.
The incidence and others where First Nations members have been stopped by ICE have prompted elders at the Blood Tribe to warn band members about crossing the border into the US, despite the fact that they have a right to do so due a centuries old treaty known as the Jay Treaty.


According to the Blood Tribe First Nation’s website, the Jay Treaty is an agreement signed between Great Britain and the U.S. in 1794. For hundreds of years, this treaty has granted band members free access to their ancestral land, allowing them to move back and forth across the Canadian and American borders without issue.
The Government of Canada’s website explains that the Jay Treaty “included a provision for free passage by First Nations Peoples and their personal goods across what is now the Canada-U.S. border.”

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CTV News reported that Canadians are not safe from ICE harassment and detainment. The news outlet reports that The Blood Tribe First Nation located in southern Alberta close to Lethbridge has reported incidences of members of the tribe being both stopped and detained.
The incidence and others where First Nations members have been stopped by ICE have prompted elders at the Blood Tribe to warn band members about crossing the border into the US, despite the fact that they have a right to do so due a centuries old treaty known as the Jay Treaty.


According to the Blood Tribe First Nation’s website, the Jay Treaty is an agreement signed between Great Britain and the U.S. in 1794. For hundreds of years, this treaty has granted band members free access to their ancestral land, allowing them to move back and forth across the Canadian and American borders without issue.
The Government of Canada’s website explains that the Jay Treaty “included a provision for free passage by First Nations Peoples and their personal goods across what is now the Canada-U.S. border.”

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Yea, yea...

The Tohono O'tham tribe here in Arizona is another one that has one of those cross-border arrangements. Their members whine about being stopped by ICE / Border Patrol all the time. What they don't say is that many of their tribe's members make serious money muling drugs and illegals into the US over reservation land.