ICE personnel confront Native actress Elaine Miles

The Seattle Times reports that Elaine Miles, known for her roles in “Northern Exposure,” “Smoke Signals” and “The Last of Us,” said she was stopped outside a Redmond, Washington, bus stop by four men wearing face masks and garb emblazoned with the ICE label. In an account originally detailed in a Facebook post earlier this month, Miles said the men emerged from two black SUVs without front license plates and demanded to see her ID.

In that same post, Miles said when she presented her tribal ID card issued by the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation of Oregon, one man called it “fake” while another said, “Anyone can make that.”

The men themselves did not share their names or badge numbers when Miles asked for them. When pressed on the validity of her tribal ID, she told them to call the phone number on the back of it. After she called the tribe’s enrollment office, the men attempted to take her phone but then retreated after a fifth ICE agent summoned them back to the SUVs.

Tribes have urged their citizens to remain calm if confronted by ICE and to present their tribal IDs, which are valid proof of U.S. citizenship, and they have called on government agencies to honor the IDs and exercise caution when detaining people.

On Veteran’s Day, a woman enrolled with the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community had an ICE detainer placed on her as she was preparing to leave the Polk County Jail. A spokesman for the jail called the mix-up a “silly” clerical error.

Critics call these two incidents examples of racial profiling. ICE did not respond to requests for comment.