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Indigenous child removals
Coverage of Indigenous child removals in the Nexus archive.
- ‘Native children belong in Native communities’: tribes decry New Mexico drug-exposed newborn rule
New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham issued a directive requiring the state's child welfare department to seek custody of newborns exposed to drugs or alcohol in utero. Native tribes in the state criticized the policy, arguing it disrespects Native sovereignty and ignores the historical trauma of Indigenous child removals.