Border wall crews damage ancient Tohono O'odham site
- Grace Trejo, Arizona Daily Star, File 2026
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Tohono O'odham Nation Chairman Verlon Jose, seen here last month along tribal land at the US-Mexico border, has been vocal about his opposition to construction of a second border wall. Tribal leaders have met with newly confirmed Department of Homeland Security director Markwayne Mullin to say a second border wall through Cabeza Prieta and Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument would damage multiple sacred sites.
Grace Trejo, Arizona Daily Star, File 2026As featured on
A 1,000-year-old site along the Arizona-Mexico border in the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge was damaged and others could be too as a second wall is added to the border, tribal officials say.
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