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"Northern Exposure" actress Elaine Miles detained by ICE, told ID is fake
Newsweek ^ | 28 November 2025 | Billal Rahman

Posted on 11/29/2025 4:19:35 PM PST by Apparatchik

Northern Exposure actress Elaine Miles said she was stopped and detained by immigration agents who allegedly dismissed her tribal identification as “fake."

Miles, who is Native American, said in a now-deleted Facebook post that the incident occurred as she was walking to a bus stop near the Bear Creek Village shopping centre in Redmond, Washington, according to The Seattle Times.

“On November 3, ICE was conducting targeted immigration enforcement traffic stops and encountered Elaine Miles while investigating a vehicle registered to an illegal alien. She was never arrested. Any claim that ICE questioned her tribal ID are FALSE. ICE agents are trained to recognize tribal IDs and accept them as proof of status," Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told Newsweek.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


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To: Apparatchik

And no one saw or recorded it.


21 posted on 11/29/2025 5:44:49 PM PST by fso301
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To: Apparatchik

No love for Cynthia Geary here?


22 posted on 11/29/2025 5:59:36 PM PST by GSWarrior
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To: Apparatchik
...Janine [Turner] is a conservative...

Mostly. She was once engaged to Alec Baldwin.

23 posted on 11/29/2025 6:24:13 PM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: jerod
Akins v. Saxbe

I did not know that. I miss the days when I learned a lot on Free Republic.

24 posted on 11/29/2025 6:25:14 PM PST by Pilsner
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To: Apparatchik

She needs to go back to her own country.


25 posted on 11/29/2025 6:30:31 PM PST by BusterDog
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To: Apparatchik

I’ll bet she was immediately hostile. If that bodycam footage ever gets FOIA’d, I wanna see it.

Here’s to hoping Midwest Safety gets their hands on it.


26 posted on 11/29/2025 6:40:27 PM PST by Tacrolimus1mg (Do no harm, but take no sh!t.)
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To: Apparatchik

That was a good show...not intense...just right.


27 posted on 11/29/2025 7:18:08 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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