Mexico Drug Gang Muscles Border Tribe Out of Homes

News Type: Event — Seeded on Mon Dec 3, 2007 10:41 AM EST

Article Source: Reuters

Members of the Tohono O'odham tribe, whose ancestral lands straddle the Arizona-Mexico border, say they are being driven out by an influx of violent Mexican smugglers.

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Hmmm. Not grouped with those "violent Mexican smugglers" in the Reuters story are the Arizona national guard, US military personnel, and other state public officials involved in coke smuggling.

Arizona's 'Cokeheads' the National Guard

The Guardsmen were not the only soldiers and law enforcement officials smuggling cocaine. During sentencing, nearly 100 others emerged, ranging from a Nogales police officer and a prison guard to US Air Force squadsmen at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson patrolling the border by air and smuggling cocaine.

The Guard is also helping build the border wall which is desecrating sacred grounds and splitting the Tohono O'odham tribe in half:

Conspiracy of Silence: O'odham say border wall is genocide

O'odham Voice Against the Wall statement:

"America is built on the blood of the original peoples of these lands and stolen lands of the original people, now our own people only speak in a foreign mindset. This is your American dream of depriving your own people of PEACE and justice when they are abusing the elders right in your face and degrading your women and children of dignity. Let's set these things right, politicians are not equal or have more authority then the traditional peoples of the land that uphold the true Him'dag. I have yet to see any politicians sit at our table and bring genuine concern and solutions to this outright land takeover buy the federal government. Soon we will be running around with a cut head when we totally lose all rights to our traditional lands, they will bulldoze over your graves to build their headquarters just as they did in Sonoyta, Mexico. Did the O'odham leaders protect those grave sites, no they didn't. Maria cried until last year when she died, she cried about having no grave to visit, her mother's grave that went under the blades. The WALL is not the solution, yes some families are hurting from their drug smuggling businesses but what about our way of life. The government has created this and planned on this don't you get it. It is called Genocide...and it is here in your face."

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