Mexico's Police Deployed to aid Invasion of Tohono O'odham Land for Border Wall Construction

Mexico's police on the southside of the border, on O'odham ancestral land, while border wall construction crews invade sovereign Tohono O'odham Nation land.

Mexico's Police Deployed to Aid in Invasion of Tohono O'odham Land for Border Wall Construction

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, August 27, 2026

Mexico's police were deployed to the border of the Tohono O'odham Nation on Wednesday, after being requested by U.S. Homeland Security, for the protection of the border wall construction crews who invaded sovereign Tohono O'odham Nation land with a drilling rig.

This is the vehicle barrier on the Tohono O'odham Nation. What you don't see are the 10 spy towers, constructed by Israel's Elbit Systems on tribal land. They are equipped with live surveillance and US Border Patrol uses those to stalk O'odham on their homeland. Most of the spy towers, integrated fixed towers, are along the border on tribal land and the others are on the interior of the Tohono O'odham Nation.

O'odham ancestral land is on both sides of the so-called border.

Photo courtesy of O'odham monitoring.

 

Border Wall construction crews set up a drilling rig O'odham Nation on Wednesday. They plan to construct a double wall, 30 feet high, and a service road, without consent of the Tohono O'odham Nation, who is battling this in federal court.

The Tohono O'odham Nation said that 20 masked and armed federal agents escorted border wall crews on to the sovereign Tohono O'odham Nation on Tuesday. On Wednesday, the contractor's drill was set up, surrounded by a swarm of US federal agents.

The Tohono O'odham Nation said the U.S. Border Patrol has set up a vehicle barrier to prevent tribal police from entering the area on their tribal land and issuing citations. 

The heavy-handed federal security on tribal land at the site includes the U.S. Border Patrol special ops, which is the BORTAC SWAT team based in El Paso, U.S. Border Patrol agents from Tucson, and BIA agents.

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Tadai Me:I -- Active drilling taking place at Ko:li Ki:jig with U.S. Customs and Border Patrol as security on 8/26/26.

(Below) This shows the path of an Army helicopter out of Tucson patrolling above the Tohono O'odham Nation on Wednesday at 3 am, before federal agents swarmed the area on tribal land. At the same time an unidentified passenger plane out of El Paso, shown in yellow, circled the area (patrolling or surveying.)

(Below) This shows an unidentified passenger plane out of El Paso circling the border on the Tohono O'odham Nation at 3 am on Wednesday, before federal agents invaded tribal land. The federal agents are protecting the border wall construction crews with a drilling rig.

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