Tribal leader repeats vow to fight Arizona-Mexico border wall

[Judi Lynn]

Source: KTAR



BY KTAR.COM | FEBRUARY 26, 2018 AT 3:33 PM
UPDATED: FEBRUARY 26, 2018 AT 3:35 PM

PHOENIX — A leader has reiterated his decision to fight a proposed border wall between the United States and Mexico that would cut tribal lands in two.

“I will do everything I can to oppose this wall,” Tohono O’odham Nation Vice Chairman Verlon Jose said during an interview with The Guardian. “I have to. That’s what I’m here for. I will oppose it.”

Jose, whose tribe has moved between southwestern Arizona and Mexico for decades, said the wall would cut his community and its way of life in half.

“I would feel very sad,” he said. “I can’t see my homeland, no matter which side I stepped on.

Read more: http://ktar.com/story/1968983/tribal-leader-repeats-vow-fight-arizona-mexico-border-wall/

[bearsfootball516]

1. I have little belief that Trump even wants to build a wall

It's much more useful to him as campaign rhetoric than to actually get it done. You can bet in 2020, he's going to have those rally crowds chanting "BUILD THE WALL" again.

Same with "Lock her up". Obviously she's done nothing wrong, but there's a reason he's never even tried to look into prosecuting her. One, it would be a massive embarrassment that would blow up in his face. And two, she makes an effective boogyman for him.