Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

September 4, 2026

Epstein Survivor Describes Sex Trafficking by Tucson Border Patrol -- While Agents Seize Tohono O'odham Land for Border Wall Construction

Epstein Survivor Describes Sex Trafficking by Tucson Border Patrol -- while Federal Agents Seize Tohono O'odham Land for Border Wall Construction

Photo by Tucson Border Patrol

An Epstein survivor describes the child sex trafficking of U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Tucson, where she was a victim. She said detainees are being tortured to death during "trafficking tourism." At the same time, Tucson Border Patrol agents, heavily armed, are preventing Tohono O'odham tribal police from entering their own land to issue citations to border wall contractors. Meanwhile, the media has ignored a cartel witness from Sinaloa, Mexico, who described the trafficking of young girls in the Epstein files.

Updates: Epstein, the Sinaloa Cartel, and more were at a golf course party in Los Angeles where a Hollywood producer is accused of strangling a girl to death, Mexico's media reports. link Update: Cryptocurrency, how it is used to launder money, scroll down.

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Sept. 4, 2026

TUCSON -- It is one of the best kept secrets in the Epstein files.
Only one newspaper, in Mexico, reported it.

An FBI protected witness called TS-47, a former cartel operative in Sinaloa, Mexico, said the cartel provided Epstein with girls, 14 to 16 years old, who were trafficked through Laredo, Texas. The cartel operative said he provided girls to Epstein in the U.S. and Caribbean. The arrangements for the girls for "marketing parties" for investors were made at a New Jersey golf course. The current president of the U.S. is implicated, Excelsior reports.

This week, an Epstein survivor described how U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Tucson were sex trafficking children as young as 9 years old.

"I am a survivor of presidential-level political blackmail and sexual espionage, blackmail trafficking," Heather said during a series of videos.

September 2, 2026

Bulldozers Crushing Nature's Life near Tohono O'odham's Sacred Springs


Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument is being bulldozed for a second border wall. Bulldozers are 0.7 miles from Quitobaquito Springs. Photo from video by Russ McSpadden, Center for Biological Diversity.

Bulldozers Crushing Nature's Life near Tohono O'odham's Sacred Springs

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, September 2, 2026

Bulldozers are now crushing the life of the natural world on Organ Pipe Cactus National Park, 0.7 miles from the sacred ceremonial place of O'odham, Quitobaquito Springs. It is home to three endangered species, a pupfish, a snail, and a mud turtle.

One Land Defender Turns Military Around at 'No Border Wall' Tree Sit in Lochiel, Arizona


One Land Defender Turns Military Around at 'No Border Wall' Tree Sit in Lochiel, Arizona

One land defender turned around a bunch of military, National Guard, today, with a cop rented helicopter coming to the rescue. At the end of the day, the land defenders are still there. Great work KPFA Radio on the ground. O'odham are with land defenders at the tree sit in Lochiel, Arizona, where they don't back down. 'No border wall.' -- Censored News.

By KPFA, Sept. 2, 2026

Tribal members and activists are continuing to occupy tree sits, blockades and a prayer camp at several points along the U.S. / Mexico border in Arizona to resist the expansion of the Trump administration’s border wall, which they say amounts to ecocide and violates Tribal sovereignty.

In Lochiel, Arizona, tensions escalated this morning, with additional federal law enforcement entering areas near the encampment.

September 1, 2026

US Government is Preventing Tohono O'odham Nation Police From Entering Their Sovereign Land

 

Photo courtesy Tohono O'odham Nation. US Border Patrol preventing tribal police from entering the Tohono O'odham Nation's sovereign land as border wall drillers began drilling.

US Government is Preventing Tohono O'odham Nation Police From Entering Their Sovereign Land

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, September 2, 2026

SELLS, Tohono O'odham Nation -- The U.S. Border Patrol is preventing Tohono O'odham Nation's tribal police from entering their own land to issue citations to border wall construction crews.

The crews are violating the 'No Trespass' order to build the border wall. Drilling is underway,

August 30, 2026

Honoring the Movements and People who Inspire. Warriors, Writers and Dreamers -- Censored News 20th Anniversary.

 

Klee Benally, Dine' writer, musician and revolutionary, Debra White Plume, Lakota, wife, mom, writer and revolutionary; Ofelia Rivas, Tohono O'odham, writer, photographer and human rights advocate; Marcos, Zapatista revolutionary, Michelle Cook, Dine' human rights lawyer; Floyd Westerman, Lakota musician and icon; Bolivian President Evo Morales, leader and revolutionary.

Honoring the Movements and People who Inspire us. Warriors, Writers and Dreamers -- A Thread Runs Through Them. Censored News 20th Anniversary.

'Know who you are, and never let anyone take your power from you.'

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, August 30, 2026


Kahentinetha is publisher of Mohawk Nation News and a Mohawk Mother holding Canada responsible for kidnapped, missing, tortured and murdered Native children. Kahentinetha holds her Haudenosaunee passport during the border summit in San Xavier, Tohono O'odham Nation, in 2007. Photo by Brenda Norrell.

We're coming up on our 20th anniversary at Censored News, and we are honoring the warriors, leaders, writers and dreamers who make Censored News possible.

When the Mohawks came for the border summit in 2006 and 2007, it was, as they say in the movie Casablanca, the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

August 29, 2026

Tohono O'odham Nation -- US Government is Violating Laws for Unnecessary Border Wall


Border wall drilling rig on the Tohono O'odham O'odham Nation protected by armed federal agents.
Photo courtesy Tohono O'odham Nation.

Tohono O'odham Nation -- US Government is Violating Laws for Unnecessary Border Wall

Censored News, August 28, 2026

The Tohono O'odham Nation said today that the U.S. Government is violating laws and their sovereignty as armed agents continue to protect border wall contractors -- who continue  drilling on the Nation. The Nation is working on court appeals and points out that the U.S. failed to consult the Nation as required by law. Further, the Nation said that a political candidate, Daniel Butierez, violated tribal laws by livestreaming on the Nation without permission, and made derogatory statements about O'odham.