the navajo nation. i know our other guests are traveling from all over the west thank you for being here today. as we say new mexico, water is life. water is sacred. water is essential to everything we do and for many tribal communities, access to water, infrastructure and funding needed to maintain that infrastructure is out of reach. in fact, across the navajo nation, it is estimated that 30- 40% of homes do not have access to running water, piped water inside of their homes. for example, which used to be in my district but is a community near and dear to my heart near albuquerque, the people have lived for many years without safe drinking water. thankfully, the issues around water are finally being addressed. however, there are still many homes that have to haul water from miles away that is used in homes, public buildings and even across public buildings. this is sadly a common story across many communities. across new mexico that have long gone without sufficient funding to address water infrastruc

these certificate of indian blood can only be verified here in our capital or throughout on the navajo nation i mentioned, many of our navajo people are spread throughout the country and the world. you know, now we're trying to provide assistance and resources on how to get a lot of their tribal identifications verified with a lot of these entities. >> but, crystal, i mean, just to i mean, just to simplify this, if you are navajo, you are allowed to be here. >> yes, absolutely. full stop. and it goes for all of our. >> it goes without. >> saying across indian country. yes. >> yeah. all right. well crystal and curly, thank you very much. with the navajo nation and beautiful window rock arizona. thank you so much for your time. and thanks for joining us this morning. i'm jim acosta. our next hour of newsroom starts after a short break. be right back. >> safelite repair safelite replace. >> nobody likes a cracked windshield, but at least you can go to safelite. com and schedule a fix in minutes. go to safelite. com and schedule a replacement today. >> safelite repair. safelite repair. >> okay. >

um, they also are clearly doing things like, in the case of this, navajo nation. i mean, talk about people who are american citizens, right? getting swept up in this. >> yes. this is called the interior enforcement. part of trump's agenda. the mass deportations, interior enforcement, uh, is is has to be regulated by by law and by practice by i.c.e. what seems to have happened now is it's just sort of go out and get people. so what does that mean? it means people who don't look like essentially white americans. and so what you're seeing is these broad sweeps. people then say, no, no, no, i'm an american. in one case, we have a reporting that someone said, i'm a puerto rican, and the ice agent didn't know that that person that puerto ricans are, in fact, americans. and lots of mistakes are being made. these are overbroad, and they're sweeping in people who are, you know, brown, black, native american until they can prove otherwise. this is an this is unregulated immigration enforcement. this is the free for all that donald trump complained about during his campaign.

and in the southwest, officials from the navajo nation report that at least 15 indigenous people have been stopped or detained since wednesday. those officials saying those navajo americans were asked to provide proof of their citizenship. trump's border czar tom homan on the ground in chicago on sunday to oversee arrests there. in an interview with cnn, homan described the chicago arrests as a, quote, good day and a game changer. end quote. >> if you're in the country illegally, you're on the table because it's not okay to violate laws of this country. you've got to remember every time you enter this country illegally, you violated a crime under title eight, united states code 1325. it's a crime. so if you're in the country illegally, you got a problem. >> new this morning, sources telling cnn that the trump administration has directed federal agents involved in the raids to wear clothing, clearly identifying their law enforcement agency with the explicit goal of generating media attention. in case you were wondering how donald trump used this as a campaign issue. joining us now to d

and yet we spotted this message from the president of the navajo nation. it cites concerns and rumors his office has received this week about their citizens being detained or questioned. buu nygren writes, please be safe, aware of your surroundings and carry valid forms of identification with you, including your certificate of indian birth, your state issued driver's license or other forms of identification. also, a tip line has now been set up for navajo citizens in new jersey. the mayor of newark says his city was terrorized by federal agents who detained people at a business thursday. he says that included not just undocumented residents, but u.s. citizens as well. now, cnn has not been able to independently verify details of the mayor's statements, but the mayor himself, ras baraka, is here with us. mr. mayor, thank you for your time. um, just let's start with tell us what happened at this ocean seafood depot in newark. >> well, good morning. i, uh, ice, uh, began a raid at the store. uh, they went into the store and went in the back of the store, not

if one is a puerto rican or a native american from the navajo nation or any other indigenous nation orer, can't they sue if they are racially harassed? which is, i think, the only name for it by ice. isn't there a class action lawsuit here waiting to happen by people who are actual citizens, who are being racially profiled? >> i can't speak to that, but i know that some of the. series of executive orders that are being put forth are truly attacking like the fabric of our constitution, namely this this attack on birthright citizenship, which will create problems for native born americans, including native americans, that if racially profiled and questioned about their ancestry, have, you know, they we continue to see that these efforts being put forth by the administration are blatantly unconstitutional. >> yeah, it's giving 1930s. not >> yeah, it's giving 1930s. not in a good way. katherine del tap into etsy for home and style staples to help you set any vibe. from custom lighting under 150 dollars to vintage jackets under 100. for affordable pieces to help you make a fresh start, etsy

the navajo nation, for example, which is heavily invested in the oil and gas industry, as well as being, you know, invested in sort of green technologies. so to say, to talk about sovereignty, there's multiple registers. it's not just the sort of ideal listed sort of. yeah, we're going to go back one with nature. so when we talk about indigenous resistance in this context, you know, there's the global movement of indigenous peoples. if you look at the, the history of the united nations, which really began in the 1970s. the recognition of indigenous peoples is relatively recent in terms of the international forums. so when we look at something like comp $29.00, we can see sort of a general recalcitrance to include indigenous voices or non state. you know, minority groups. i was gonna say there is a reluctance to include certain groups. i mean, the fossil fuel lobby, for example, is represented by 10 times the number of attendees as indigenous participants. when you think about transitions, out of the se of carbon economy to agree and economy you stated before the populations have that ha

especially arizona on the navajo nation of the issue of abandoned uranium romines.there's about 500 of them. the nation's been working to clean up these mines for decades now but the bureaucratic process of the superfund law has meant that very little progress has been made on this. and it contaminates water and just the radiation itself is causes cancer. one step which was taken during the last trump administration was to establish a regional office called the office of balance deserts and planes which would focus on cutting through the bureaucracy and accelerating the cleanup of mines in the west. senator lammas and i introduced legislation last congress which passed this community unanimously called the legacy mine cleanup act which would authorize the creation of the office and accelerate mine cleanup across the western united states so will you commit to having your team review the legislation quickly so we can then incorporate epa's feedback before we introduce the bill this year. >> yes senator. >> will you commit to ensuring the issue of abandoned rate urani

judy from the black false community of the navajo nation has lived her entire life without running water. a cistern that once stored rainwater through algae, making it unusable. when she needs water, she drives 30 miles, making as many as three trips a week in the summer months. having reliable access to clean drinking water would be life-changing, she says. so in november, i signed historic water settlements with leaders from four tribal nations , ending decades of litigation and finally setting their water -- settling their water rights. now, it is time for congress to do their part and pass these settlements so that judy, her community, and future generations have access to the safe clean water they deserve. [applause] >> in addition to the settlements, i have taken decisive action to ensure arizona's water future and defend our state groundwater from other -- irresponsible developers who are focused only on short-term profits. through the work of my water policy counsel, we created a program to build the housing communities need to grow while protecting the groundwater they rely on.

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and so i think we can add you know forced relocation of the navajo during the war forced relocation of a number of native nations immediately the war in part because of the choices they made during the war. to our list of state sponsored atrocities that are part of the story of the civil war and weren't necessarily involving combat. but clearly those things involved a lot of violence as well. i mean, part of this, too, hinges also, i think, on 19th century understandings of the body and pain, right. so there's a kind of widespread expectation or assumption, 19th century white americans, that black americans don't experience pain in the same way. i mean, this persists in the it's a remaining problem in the medical community today. i mean, you know, studies continue to come out about the ways in which doctors don't prescribe pain relievers to black patients the way they do to white patients presenting with the same problems. but what this meant, i think, in the 19th century was an even more callous attitude, particularly in the contraband camps. and we started this conversation in a couple of panels to the sufferi