Navajo alarmed by reports of Indigenous people caught up in Trump immigration raids

Buu Nygren, the president, advised Navajo people to carry state-issued ID: ‘It’s best to be prepared.’ Photograph: Felicia Fonseca/AP

The Navajo nation is taking steps to protect its community from federal immigration actions, amid reports that some Indigenous Americans have been swept up in US deportation raids being carried out early in Donald Trump’s second presidency.

In a statement, the Navajo nation president, Buu Nygren, said his office in Window Rock, Arizona, had received reports that tribal members had had “negative, and sometimes traumatizing, experiences with federal agents targeting undocumented immigrants in the south-west”.