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.
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And no one saw or recorded it.
No love for Cynthia Geary here?
Mostly. She was once engaged to Alec Baldwin.
I did not know that. I miss the days when I learned a lot on Free Republic.
She needs to go back to her own country.
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.
That was a good show...not intense...just right.
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