Overview
- Elaine Miles reports four masked men in ICE-labeled vests stopped her near Redmond’s Bear Creek Village, rejected her Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla ID, and left after a fifth agent signaled from an SUV.
- She says the agents refused to call the tribal enrollment office listed on the card and briefly tried to take her phone when she attempted to verify it herself.
- Tribal enrollment cards are recognized by federal agencies, and Miles says she has used hers to travel to Canada and Mexico without issues.
- Miles also describes earlier short detentions of her son and uncle in which ICE agents initially questioned their tribal IDs; an Indigenous rights attorney called the encounters racial profiling.
- ICE has not commented, and Redmond’s city council voted to turn off Flock Safety license-plate cameras following local arrests that day, with no evidence the cameras were used in those operations.