Frank Starr

At a press conference in Minneapolis, Ogallala Sioux President Frank Starr comes out, says he's been trying to get information on reports that four homeless tribal members were detained by ICE, but he says he's at a stalemate with Homeland Security.

The agency has so far said it has no reports of holding them.

But in response, the Ogallala Sioux Tribe and others in the region are holding enrollment drives and issuing tribal IDs and urging their members in the Twin Cities to carry them at all times.

Tribal leaders say their priority is to protect their sovereign members who are protected by treaties with the federal government.

The Ogallala Sioux Tribe possibly banning ICE follows its banning of then South Dakota Governor and now Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

from entering Pine Ridge in 2019.

Kirk Ziegler, NPR News.