I started reading the article to find out how someone could be an indigenous immigrant but just got more confused
That was exactly my question.
Seems to me that this is talking about non-latino, native people from South America. They referenced a woman from Guatemala who speaks Mam, a Mayan language. ICE seems ill equipped to handle any migrants, but are even more poorly equipped to deal with non-spanish speaking migrants.
The title made me want to avoid reading the link, but I assume an indigenous immigrant is someone local to the area whose ancestors straddled a modern day border. So someone from the Pueblo nation who lived on the Mexican side and moved to the US side, or someone from the Mohawk nation who lived on the Canadian side and moved to the US side.
But I guess it could also refer to someone indigenous to one region (eg, Hawaii) who migrated to another state?
