Washington, May 12 -- Representative Sharice Davids issued the following press release:
Today, Representatives Sharice Davids (D-KS-03), Don Bacon (R-NE-02), and Teresa Leger Fernandez (D-NM-03) and Senator Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM) introduced the bipartisan (https://davids.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/davids-evo.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/davids-tribal-id-bill.pdf) Respect Tribal IDs Act to improve how Department of Homeland Security (DHS) personnel recognize and interact with tribal identification documents during immigration enforcement. The legislation comes amid growing reports of Native Americans being questioned, delayed, or detained after federal officers failed to recognize valid tribal IDs and documentation as proof of citizen...