Peter Yazzie was at a gas station just getting ready for work when Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents swarmed his vehicle.
As a U.S. citizen and a member of the Navajo Nation and Laguna Pueblo in Arizona, Yazzie says he directed officers to documents proving his citizenship and tribal ancestry, but was ignored and instead detained for several hours in the Phoenix area.
He tells Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd about the experience.
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