TON Reservation feels like an occupied Nation [View all]
In traveling the 22 mile round trip from my home to my high school, I passed no less than 18 border patrol SUVs and one border patrol helicopter flying overhead.
The Tohono o'Odham Nation's land and population crosses the border into Mexico and because of that, many on The Nation do not recognize the border since the border represents something similar to the Berlin Wall to them.
My students and their parents abhor the Border Patrol treating their land as the BP's occupied land while disrespecting their property (students have told me BP car park on their land and refuse to vacate when asked) and disrespecting their traffic laws by speeding down they roads driving like maniacs (I normally drive 70 on a road marked for 65 MPH and Border Patrol car pass me like I am standing still).
CBP, ICE, and the BP have little oversight and are arrogant and smug when you have any interaction when them.
This needs to change and I plan on working to do that if elected, even though this is a federal issue.
No American citizen should feel like their backyard is being dominated by people who act as an occupying force in a war zone.
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