Thread: Tribal Leader Threatens Protest If Border Wall Is Built

by JOHN BINDER
27 Apr 2017
Phoenix, AZ
1,507 comments

A tribal leader is threatening protests if the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) begins construction of President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall.

During a meeting of Native American tribal leaders, the Tohono O’odham Nation’s Vice Chairman Verlon Jose threatened protests similar to those known as ‘Standing Rock,’ where environmentalists protested the Dakota Access Pipeline, if Trump’s wall is built, according to AZ Central:

Before the day was over and the guests left the remote desert mission on tribal lands, Jose would bash Trump’s proposed wall, calling it a waste of taxpayer dollars and comparing it to the Berlin Wall. He would call on people to see the barrier as an international human-rights issue, offer an alternative plan for tightening border security, and acknowledge that innocent tribal members are subjected to increased vehicle searches by Border Patrol agents.

He also warned of a mass protest on the border if diplomacy fails to keep the U.S. government off Tohono O’odham land, a protest that he said would rival Standing Rock.

Jose is threatening the protests because his tribe sits on more than 2 million acres across a southern Arizona desert that crosses through Mexico, across the U.S.-Mexico Border.

Besides gathering to threaten a protest against the construction of the border wall, the meeting of tribal leaders also included a chant demanding a “sanctuary for all.”

“They chanted a message printed on T-shirts for the trek: No Deportations, No Ban, No Wall, Sanctuary for All,” the AZ Central noted.

Despite hang-ups between the Trump Administration and Congress, DHS Secretary John Kelly said the construction of the border wall would “move forward,” Breitbart Texas reported.

http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2017/...wall-is-built/

Build the WALL around them.

Oh fine, have a protest. Protest your own country against your own citizens for the benefit of foreign nationals sneaking into our country through your lands to steal jobs and educations and taxpayer monies and health care and lives and limbs from American citizens. Sure, go ahead and protest, and show your true colors. Maybe one day, you'll find yourself on the wrong end of one of their machetes when they're stealing your cattle, polluting your land with trash, and stealing your tribal coffers.

The Tohono O’odham tribe, which has roughly 28,000 members and controls 2.8 million acres of a reservation in south-western Arizona, has long struggled with the militarized international border that was drawn through the middle of its traditional lands.

Over my dead body: Tribe aims to block border wall on Arizona land

Originally Posted by Beezer

Build the WALL around them.

The straight black line at the bottom is the U.S. Mexico border.

(The white area is the county.)

The wall would have to outline all of the red area.

Their land is 75 miles of the border.

I have no idea how far it is around their land.