Armed CBP agents, border wall contractors Forcibly enter Tohono O’odham Nation Reservation.
Seeking some informed perspective on this one.
Especially for those of us with some Native American
ancestry, tribal sovereignty and treaty obligations carry
a particular heavy weight. But as an «American First»(er)
so does the federal government’s responsibility to
secure an international border.
The harder question is what happens when those duties collide.
Armed federal agents and contractors entering tribal
land over the Nation’s objections raises serious
questions about sovereignty, jurisdiction and the
limits of federal authority.
Border security matters. Treaties matter. Tribal sovereignty matters.
This seems less like a partisan question than one
deserving careful legal, historical and constitutional