“For a quarter-century, Tohono O’odham leaders have staved off a border wall by allowing DHS to use the reservation as a testing ground for some of the govt’s most aggressive homeland security measures—from vehicle barriers on the reservation’s southern boundary, to state-of-the-art surveillance towers, to law enforcement partnerships w the Border Patrol & ICE.

“Despite the collaborations, & assurances from the Trump administration, ProPublica found that DHS has turned its vast apparatus on tribal members, w 24-hour surveillance directed at an ongoing border prayer ceremony & tribal members being questioned outside the reservation about their ceremonial activities. ProPublica’s account is based on photos, videos, court filings, interviews with tribal leadership, firsthand observations & more than 1,000 contemporaneously written observations compiled by tribal members.”

#Trump #ice #arizona #indigenous #borderwall #tribes #intimidation #dhs #tohonooodham

https://www.propublica.org/article/tohono-oodham-nation-arizona-border-wall