ICE tried to deport a Native American
BREAKING: ICE just tried to deport this woman, but there was just one problem — she was Native American.
Leticia Jacobo, a 24-year-old member of Arizona’s Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, was born in Phoenix — but that didn’t stop ICE from trying to ship her “back” to a country she doesn’t even belong to.
Here’s how this jaw-dropping injustice unfolded: Jacobo was sitting in a Polk County, Iowa jail after being booked for allegedly driving with a suspended license — nothing violent, nothing serious.
Her mother, Ericka Burns, was preparing to pick her up and bring her home when jail staff dropped a bombshell: “She’s not being released. ICE is coming to deport her.”
Her mom was stunned. “How can you deport her?” she asked. “She’s Native American!”
But the jail staff shrugged it off. They said they were “just holding her” for ICE. No one — not a single person — could explain how or why this was happening.
Jacobo’s family went into overdrive — calling, emailing, begging officials to stop what was about to become one of the most shameful bureaucratic blunders in modern history. They reached out to tribal leaders, shared pleas on Facebook, and even showed up at the jail with her birth certificate to prove she’s an American citizen.
Finally, after an agonizing all-night standoff, she was released around 4:30 a.m. — barely.
And what’s ICE’s excuse? A “clerical error.”
Lt. Mark Chance from the Polk County Sheriff’s Office casually dismissed it as “human error.” Just a little mix-up, they said. The detainer was meant for someone else, and they just happened to attach it to the file of a Native American woman born on U.S. soil.
Let that sink in: the United States government almost deported an Indigenous woman from her own country.
This is what happens when an agency like ICE is given unchecked power — where “clerical errors” can destroy lives, and where systemic racism and dehumanization are written into the paperwork. If her family hadn’t fought like hell, Leticia Jacobo could have been vanished into ICE custody — another name lost in a broken, brutal system.
Checked with Snopes, it's true.
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It's not just that ICE is incompetent. They literally have no incentive to be competent or to avoid making mistakes or committing gross injustice.
All the Orange Hellbeast cares about is large numbers of people getting thrown out of the country, and ICE has been goven carte blanche to make that happen. Schlump doesn't care WHO is getting thrown out, whether they are actually an "illegal" alien or even an alien at all. ICE knows this, and they are more than happy to scoop up green card holders, people who are in the process of applying for refugee status, or even American citizens, naturalized or native born alike
This is what happens when a megalomaniac gets this much power and is willing to hire unscrupulous people and unleash them on an unsuspecting populace to do whatever the hell they feel like doing. ICE simply doesn't care, because they have no incentive to care and no accountability. 
Still broke after your $50,000 sign on bonus? Pickup 5 people a day and get an extra $10,000 every day.
Article on DU today was talking about that, they get $2,000 for picking up people who are later released
because they're citizens. That isn't right!
Imagine what kind of police state this country would have if cops could charge you with shoplifting knowing
you were innocent but were worth $2,000 to them to get you booked for it? 
I forgot about that! So not only do they have no incentive to operate legally and ethically, they're literally being rewarded for not doing so! 
How you spell dismembered. 
do not exist. Any other languages?
and not just for Leticia Jacobo.. For All those who are Disappeared by the Traitor's Neo Nazi Gestapo.
Oh That Ugly Noem needs More Mascara.
Glad Leticia Jacobo was saved in the nick of time. 
Mahalo, KS.Heartbreaking For All Those People who are Terrorized and Traumatized by the Gestapo... 
ICE Needs to Be Held Accountable some Day To Get Justice for the American People. 
Otherwise I'd link to it. But one of our members met a ICE agent on vacation, who admitted that on top of ridiculous signing bonuses, they also get something like $2000 PER ARREST, regardless of that person's status as a citizen. So basically, whoever put this woman behind bars just scored $2K even for this "human error". Sounds like an pretty good incentive to be an asshole.
