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Tribal leader repeats vow to fight Arizona-Mexico border wall
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.
More:
http://ktar.com/story/1968983/tribal-leader-repeats-vow-fight-arizona-mexico-border-wall/
LBN:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141998558
