Correction Connection: Native American sovereignty

We're introducing an occasional feature to this blog called Correction Connection. In this feature, we shall correct false statements by people interviewed by the media or by the media itself.

Our first installment comes to us from an article in the New York Post.

The New York Post is a tabloid print version of Fox News Channel, so I don't trust it for facts. So it's only fitting that the Post is the source of the first item in this feature.

In an article about the Mohawk Native American reservation, a U.S. customs agent was quoted as saying, "They act like they are a sovereign nation, but we can go onto the land any time we want."

Um, no.

U.S. agents may not set foot on Native American sovereign land without permission. The reservation is in fact sovereign.

Those are the rules. If the U.S. customs department thinks it can just sneak onto a reservation, it's simply wrong.

Just as it's illegal for immigrants to cross into the United States without permission, it's also illegal for U.S. agents to sneak onto others' sovereign land. That is an illegal invasion.