What's your heritage and dignity worth?

$50, to the "Kaweah Indian Nation" in Nebraska.

You see, that's the starting price for memberships in the tribe that are being marketed to illegal aliens, with the claim that such membership gives them protection from being deported.

It doesn't, naturally. That hasn't stopped the Kaweahs and another tribe in North Dakota from selling upwards of 10,000 memberships recently, though:

"Manuel Urbina, the tribe's high chief, acknowleged his group has sold at least 10,000 tribal memberships to illegal immigrants for about $50 each.
"We are not going against the law, we're with the law," he said, claiming membership papers can help illegal immigrants avoid being detained by authorities if they are asked for documents."

Nice try, but no dice, sir. Since the Kaweah tribe isn't even real, they're going to have a hard time justifying their sovereign status:

"The federal Bureau of Indian Affairs denied the Kaweah group recognition in 1985 because it was not a real tribe."

So we have a fake tribe, selling fake memberships to people that aren't here legally. Wrong any way one looks at it.

"'As for those who say it's a scam, he said: "If they want to pass judgment, I can't help that.'"

No, you can't, and I will pass judgment, you scamming fraud.