🌎👮♂️ ICE Agents Arrest Another Native American on Their Own Land
It takes a special kind of ignorance to tell a Native American man to "go back where he came from," but that is exactly where we have arrived. In a scene that would be satire if it weren't so violent, ICE agents in Minneapolis have punched, dragged, and arrested a young Native American man named Jose "Beto" Ramirez. His crime? Driving while brown in the vicinity of his aunt's house.
The details of this incident are not just infuriating; they are a history lesson in American cruelty. Ramirez, a descendant of the Red Lake Nation, was pulled from his vehicle by federal agents who laughed at him and reportedly sneered that he "wasn't really from here." Let that sink in. A federal agent, acting as the foot soldier for a government less than 250 years old, told a man whose ancestors have been on this land for millennia that he didn't belong.
This happened in the shadow of Little Earth, the heart of the Indigenous community in Minneapolis. For days, we have heard reports of ICE agents swarming this neighborhood, treating it like occupied territory. They are stopping people at random, demanding papers from elders, and detaining Indigenous citizens because they "look illegal." It is racial profiling in its purest, clumsiest, and most violent form.
Ramirez recounts the experience with a shaking voice, saying, "I felt like I was kidnapped." And he was. When armed men with no jurisdiction over you drag you from your car, throw you in a van, and refuse to listen when you tell them you are a U.S. citizen, that isn't law enforcement. That is a kidnapping ring funded by your tax dollars.
The fact that this happened in front of his aunt adds a layer of generational trauma that is impossible to ignore. For Native communities, the sight of federal agents taking young men away isn't a new headline; it is an old ghost. It echoes the boarding schools, the forced displacements, and the broken treaties. ICE isn't just enforcing immigration law; they are reenacting the colonial violence that founded this country.
We must also talk about the incompetence. These agents are so blinded by the "invasion" rhetoric coming from the White House that they can no longer distinguish between a refugee and the original inhabitants of the continent. They are hunting "foreigners" so zealously that they are attacking the only people who are truly native. It proves that this crackdown isn't about legal status. It is about race. If you aren't white, you are a target.
The administration will likely dismiss this as an "administrative error" or a case of "mistaken identity." They will apologize for the "inconvenience" and hope we move on. But you cannot apologize for the mindset that led to that moment. You cannot train an agent out of the belief that he has the right to dominate anyone who doesn't look like him. That rot is deep, and it is systemic.
This incident destroys the lie that if you "follow the law," you have nothing to fear. Beto Ramirez followed the law. He is a citizen. He was on his ancestral land. And he was still beaten and mocked by the state. If it can happen to him, it can happen to anyone the government decides doesn't "look American" enough.
We need to abolish this agency. ICE has proven time and again that it is incapable of reform. It is a rogue force that operates with impunity, terrorizing communities and trampling on the Constitution. When you have agents laughing as they assault Native Americans on US soil, you have lost the moral authority to enforce anything.
Beto Ramirez is home now, bruised but alive. But the question remains: How long before the next "mistake" ends in a funeral? We saw what happened to Renee Good. We know what these agents are capable of. It is time to get them out of our cities before they kill again.
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