A federal judge in Washington, D.C. has denied a request from the Tohono O’odham Nation to halt the construction of a 62-mile border wall along their reservation in Arizona.
Background
The Tohono O’odham Nation, which has over 37,000 members, had argued that the wall would cause significant devastation to their land, including the destruction of sacred mountain peaks and interference with their religious rituals.
However, U.S. District Judge Richard Leon ruled that the tribe had not established that the border wall would change their reservation boundaries without congressional authority, and that the government’s interests in securing the border and enforcing immigration laws outweighed any potential harm to the tribe.
The Tohono O’odham Nation’s reservation spans 2.8 million acres in the Sonoran Desert and shares a 62-mile border with Mexico.
Original reporting: Alexandria, VA News – WTOP News — read the source article.
