A little known law allows the federal government power to waive other laws that stand in the way of national security.
. “The controlled blasting is targeted and will continue intermittently for the rest of the month.”
The plan is to use that land to build a 30-foot-high steel wall meant to be part of a 43-mile wall along the southwest border, the Associated Press reported. The blasting that’s happening now, Grijalva said, “is just the crudest indication of what’s going on.” Tohono O’odham Nation’s reservation is private land, but its burial site is on public land. Grijalva is asking for an immediate “government-to government” consultation with the Tohono O’odham nation. “There’s been stonewalling, no response for any request,” he said.
National Monument and sacred site, now with bulldozers and controlled explosions . Why? Trump wall prep is “bulldozing through numerous sacred sites of the Tohono O’odham Nation — including Monument Hill.”
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