DEMING, Wash. – International human rights observers are doubling down on Whatcom County’s Nooksack Tribe over its effort to evict people from tribal housing whom it says are non-members.

The Seattle Times reports the United Nations Human Rights Council first took up the cause of several families facing eviction by the tribe in 2022.

The families are among more than 300 people who were disenrolled in recent years because the tribe says they could not show a direct bloodline connection.

The families facing eviction live in subsidized housing built on Nooksack land that the tribe says is needed for true members.

Members of the U.N. council contacted the Biden White House in March, saying the tribe is evicting the more than two dozen people in violation of international law.

Nooksack leaders counter that they are acting lawfully and charge the U.N. council with violating its own code of conduct and with insulting the tribe’s sovereignty.