| As Trump's Wall Closes in, DHS Intimidates a Border Tribe With Surveillance, Masked Agents and Drones A border patrol vehicle drives past the Tadai Me:i prayer camp on the Tohono O'odham nation on Sept. 5. Cam Mackey At 4:59 a.m. on Aug. 25, Verlon Jose, the chairman of the Tohono O'odham Nation in Southern Arizona, received an email from the head of the U.S. Border Patrol's Tucson Sector. Government contractors were en route to conduct soil tests for construction of a 62-mile wall along the Nation's southern boundary, wrote acting chief patrol agent Henry N. Laxdal. |