Luján and House colleagues introduced the bipartisan Respect Tribal IDs Act to improve how DHS personnel recognize and interact with Tribal identification documents during immigration enforcement.
Introduce and support legislation to improve how DHS personnel recognize and interact with Tribal identification documents during immigration enforcement.
Occurrences
Evidence
The Guardian reported that the new DHS funding law sent roughly $70 billion to DHS, ICE, and CBP, with the focus on expanded immigration enforcement and without the accountability safeguards Democrats had sought.
MPR reported that the Oglala Sioux Tribe said ICE detained four tribal members in Minneapolis and that DHS would only provide more information if the tribe entered an immigration agreement with ICE.
The Guardian reported that ICE officers stopped Elaine Miles, questioned her tribal identification, called it fake, and refused to verify it with her tribal office before releasing her.
Assessments
The available record does not show that Ben Ray Lujan delivered a federal legislative fix specifically improving how DHS personnel recognize and interact with Tribal identification documents during immigration enforcement. The evidence instead shows the underlying problem persisted during his Senate service, with reported 2025-2026 incidents in which ICE personnel questioned or mishandled Tribal IDs. There is also not enough clear primary-source evidence here that Lujan introduced or materially advanced a targeted bill on this exact issue, so the claim cannot be scored as delivered, and the record is too incomplete to score it as a clear failed serious attempt.