#the native community I'm from live right next to the border. I've already had family members jailed before by border patrol | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

thehealingsystem · 2 months ago

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we were denied heating assistance because of rampant anti-immigration policies and ended up having the information my family gave them (birth certificates, social security, etc.) deemed illegitimate. what is happening anymore

#my mom was pissed #she scared the hell out of me storming into the house rambling about needing to find some other forms of verification #and desperately asking me for one of my pay stubs to prove we live here #my mind went to the worst place imaginable that she had ran into an ice agent and they have been targeting native americans #and she's visibly colored #then remembered they definitely would not have let her go #I'm scared this will only get worse once they start going to smaller places #the native community I'm from live right next to the border. I've already had family members jailed before by border patrol #who thought they were mexicans #like I'm scared eventually they'll tear apart what little community mi'kmaq here have left #trump administration #mass deportations #immigration #us politics #a concern for me is worrying that they might've judged from where we used to live to #yknow. on mi'kmaw housing #we may not have enrollment but it's still pretty obvious where we come from

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