Border Wall Sparks Native Rights Clash on Tohono O’odham Lands

The New York Times reports escalating tensions as a major border-wall plan would cut through the Tohono O’odham Nation’s 62‑mile Arizona reservation, testing decades of cooperation with the U.S. while threatening ancestral lands and cross‑border ties. The tribe, whose homeland straddles the U.S.–Mexico border, has adapted to prior security barriers but views this proposed wall as a potential erasure of sovereignty and heritage, illustrating a broader clash between immigration enforcement and tribal rights.