The Tohono O’odham Nation is being used a testing ground for high tech border surveillance by the US government. MTV NEWS’s YoonjKim went on the ground to chat with tribal members about racial profiling and privacy issues they’re facing. Full video here:
, the tribe has been through a few different iterations of a wall of any kind. In the mid-2000s, the tribal council allowed the federal government to build a small vehicle barrier that would still allow space for wildlife and people to cross through. Then, after the September 11 terrorist attacks, then-President George W. Bush signed the, which removed the barbed-wire fence and replaced it with the line of thick metal posts which still stand today.
As Jose sees it, the Tohono O’odham Nation is “only as sovereign as the federal government allows us to be.” It’s not clear if the towers would actually eliminate the Trump administration’s push for a wall on their land, though. When Kim asked Kendall Jose, the Vice President Chairman of the Chukut Kuk District of the Tohono O’odham Nation, if the government could still, theoretically, build a wall even after the towers were placed, he said: “You know, I guess that they could. I guess in the name of border security, they can do it.”Your privacy is basically invaded 24/7.
The towers are just one recent example of the Tohono O’odham Nation negotiating their quality of life with the U.S. government, and existing border patrol presence and growing surveillance has created tension and fear across the reservation. When MTV News traveled to the national border that bisects the Nation, we met with a number of tribal members who are growing increasingly concerned about their safety and privacy.
“We're really under surveillance 24/7,” Samuel Lopez, the Vice President of the Tohono O’odham Youth Council, told MTV News, adding: “Your privacy is basically invaded 24/7. And with these integrated fixed towers that's even adding onto it.”
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