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

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.

'NO BORDER WALL' Land Defenders Block Trucks at Tree Sit in Lochiel, Arizona

Blocking the border wall trucks at the Tree Sit in Lochiel, Arizona.

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Land defenders halt the construction of the border wall in a three-mile stretch on Wednesday, near the "Grandmother's Tree," as binational resistance grows to border wall construction, on both sides of the so-called border, the group said in Lochiel, east of Nogales, on August 26, 2026.

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NOW! Border Wall Construction Crews on Tohono O'odham Nation

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Border Wall construction crews were escorted on to the Tohono O'odham Nation by masked and armed federal agents, and began drilling immediately today. Photo: Tohono O'odham Nation

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NOW! Border Wall Construction Crews on Tohono O'odham Nation 

Update: Just before noon today, the contractor's drill was set up, surrounded by a swarm of US Border Patrol agents. The Tohono O'odham Nation said the 
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 U.S. 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; BIA officers, and Border Patrol from Tucson. Mexico's police have been deployed to protect border wall contractors from Mexico's south side.

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, August 26, 2026

SELLS, TOHONO O'odham Nation -- The Tohono O'odham Nation said that twenty masked and armed federal agents from Tucson entered their sovereign tribal land accompanying border wall construction crews at 4 am on Tuesday, in violation of tribal sovereignty.

Lawsuit Challenges Arizona Copper Mine Exploration Threatening Mexican Spotted Owls

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Copper Creek Canyon. Photo credit: Russ McSpadden, Center for Biological Diversity

Lawsuit Challenges Arizona Copper Mine Exploration Threatening Mexican Spotted Owls

By Center for Biological Diversity, Censored News, August 25, 2026

MAMMOTH, Ariz.— The Center for Biological Diversity, the San Carlos Apache Tribe and the Lower San Pedro Watershed Alliance sued the Trump administration today for approving exploratory drilling for a copper mine that threatens Mexican spotted owls and other imperiled wildlife near Arizona’s iconic San Pedro River.

“Federal officials knew that Mexican spotted owls were in the project area and still approved more than 1,300 acres of industrial drilling on our public lands,” said Russ McSpadden, Southwest conservation advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity.