Sixties Scoop survivor held in U.S. jail after attempted return to adoptive family
U.S. attorney dropped unlawful re-entry charge against James Mast because he is Cree
James Mast, a Cree Sixties Scoop survivor, says he was making his way to Oklahoma so he could care for his ailing adoptive father when tribal police on the U.S. side of the Akwesasne reservation arrested him and turned him over to U.S. Border Patrol.
Mast, 60, has been held at the Clinton County jail in Plattsburgh, N.Y., which sits about 115 km southeast of Akwesasne, since his April 14 arrest by St. Regis Mohawk Tribal Police. He was detained after crossing the St. Lawrence River by boat and had no identification on him at the time.
...His adoptive parents never made him a U.S. citizen and Mast said he didn't know how to fight the deportation.
READ: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sixties-scoop-immigration-1.7541323
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