WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 -- Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and ten of her Senate Democratic colleagues joined a letter led by Senator Patty Murray (D-Wash.) demanding U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem provide answers regarding the outrageous mistreatment of Tribal citizens by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in a number of recent incidents.
In their letter, the Senators called out reports of ICE improperly stopping or detaining Tribal citizens for no apparent reason beyond racial profiling and urged Secretary Noem to develop policy and trainings to ensure that all ICE agents are trained to recognized Tribal IDs.
"We write to s...