A Virtual Border Wall Threatens Tribal Land

A Virtual Border Wall Threatens Tribal Land | MTV News Investigates

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3 жыл бұрын

The U.S. government is deploying state-of-the-art surveillance technology along the border - and they're using the Tohono O’odham Nation as the testing ground. In this investigation, MTV News correspondent Yoonj Kim goes on the ground to hear from tribal members their experiences with racial profiling and privacy infringement.
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@iamdoubleed Жыл бұрын

The way I found out about this tribe is by getting stopped by border patrol when I was chasing thunderstorms during the monsoons .. I was told that I was trespassing .

@MiloSatori Жыл бұрын

Actually he was in america the whole video. He just crossed to USA.

@jaylenejose6941 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@boredstudent 3 жыл бұрын

One of my coworkers who no longer works with me is Tohono O'odham. I never knew about that tribe until he mentioned it. I also work with a Navajo. Now that tribe I did know of.

@fijbcdhhnkkjjjj 3 жыл бұрын

Very educational video- thank you!

@corderoholmes 3 жыл бұрын

My People ✊🏽

@davidmcconnell8637 Жыл бұрын

I say hire people in the tribes to monitor and guard their own section of the border. Maintaining the tribes integrate and create employment for them. Maybe just monitor the border of the tribe. They know their own people.

@eliasgonzales5251 3 жыл бұрын

Me parece muy interesante

@blackbird5634 3 жыл бұрын

1984-by Orwell, he says surveillance is not just about catching criminal behavior, but is DESIGNED to effect the behavior of those being watched. To let them know they are being watched.

@wandamiller4473 Жыл бұрын

That's sad.

@duchessstudioband7896 3 ай бұрын

I had read an article about this tribe when the wall was first talked about. The Tohono tribe has a total right to dictate what will be built on their land. My honest opinion that the wall was poorly thought out, as a quick solution to a ptoblem. The wall was a waste of money, due to the situation with tribe. It is their land. Bottom line. Another failed policy of Trump

@paintup46 2 жыл бұрын

Why dont you talk to the residents who complain of cartel extortion? How about a few miles north in Sells? Where drugs and gangs are destroying the reservation? You need to keep it real in these kind of docu’s.

@xwrtk 2 жыл бұрын

They do. It’s even in the website. Just the drugs part. They don’t like how some of their members partake in drugs and sell to make money as poor. A man from the tribe was asked to sell drugs by legal “cartel” member and offered a lot money but he declined after considering and nothing bad happened to him as they let him be. Video was/is on the website with the man. Man wasn’t sure if he truly cartel but was told that was legal so he wouldn’t have to worry. This is from multiple different news interviews so they post the videos.

@mikeaguilarrueda7189 3 жыл бұрын

El razismo nunca para

@hailoweenhailoween5264 2 жыл бұрын

Especially in Mexico

@buttdreads 3 жыл бұрын

Is This the tribe near Casa Grande AZ?

@xwrtk 2 жыл бұрын

Phoenix, Tucson, and Florence. Majority being around Tucson.

@paintup46 2 жыл бұрын

No!

@paintup46 2 жыл бұрын

Near Sells, AZ right on the border. Very dangerous area!

@xwrtk 2 жыл бұрын

@@paintup46 It’s not as dangerous as people put it out to be as some the tribal elders lived there all of their lives. A Tohono o’odham man declined a polite offer to smuggle drugs from someone legal in the U.S. Never bothered again after the incident. A few elders don’t feel threatened by migrants while hate border patrol keep watching their business when bored.

@paintup46 2 жыл бұрын

@@xwrtk I am very familiar, i lived in Ajo for quite some time. Yes it is pretty dangerous based on the fact that people don’t really discuss what happens in this part of the country. You only hear about “illegal immigration” which pulls on the heart strings and the other side of it may change the amount of sympathy they give for the situation. We have heard that the Rez is under extortion with the cartels, have no proof that it is true, as their land is wide open and smugglers have a straight shot through the desert to I-8, and I-10. I don’t believe the cartels have any sympathy for the natives.

@MzMattia520 3 жыл бұрын

Its time to exercise our 2nd amendment my fellow natives.

@codygeewin5166 3 жыл бұрын

No it's the to Exercise NATIVE INDEPENDENCE!!!!

@mannyjimz721 2 жыл бұрын

You sir are perhaps the most s-t-u-p-i-d-e-s-t person here on KZfaq!

@hailoweenhailoween5264 2 жыл бұрын

You guys should be exercising 2nd amendment against illegals coming into my country.

@adobetradingpost2236 3 жыл бұрын

What's the name of the city where the Tohono Oodham lived? I am so curious, recently I was informed by Ancestry that belong to a Northern indigenous tribe, which I think it's the Tohono. Yay, I have 28% DNA that I shared with these families. So excited.

@sleepwalker2977 3 жыл бұрын

By Tucson

@Randylayhe 3 жыл бұрын

Us Oodham don't live in a city we stay on a reservation west of Tucson Arizona about 1 hour out. And if you try and visit some of us are friendly but sells az has a dark side Gang violence/ Gangs/ Drug smuggling/ Human smuggling /Drug & Alcohol abuse / & many more

@mountainechoes1886 3 жыл бұрын

Visit the outer villages we are still friendly

@paintup46 2 жыл бұрын

@@Randylayhe Yes, there is a dark side to the reservations that people don’t want to hear about. This area is east of Lukeville, the port of entry, and west of Tucson. This is a very dangerous area for ALL.

@chiprios3690 6 ай бұрын

I am a member of the Tohono O'odham tribe and we have a small town called Sells. That's our capital of the rez. the rest of the nation are 12 villages.

@RicardoLopez-is8nx 3 жыл бұрын

It's crazy how they have so much similarities with some of us Mexicans in the way they look 😂

@selenagomezacapella 3 жыл бұрын

Did you not watch the video? Half of their tribe is in Mexico so many Tohono O'odham people are "politically" Mexican and they don't look like Mexicans, they look like indigenous people which some Mexicans are, including some of their own tribal members.

@RicardoLopez-is8nx 3 жыл бұрын

@@selenagomezacapella yes I cought that part and get what they are saying . And if they're politically why would you say they don't look Mexican when they are Mexican ?? Lol

@selenagomezacapella 3 жыл бұрын

@@RicardoLopez-is8nx - Because one can't look Mexican, they don't look like Guillermo Del Toro or Canelo Alvarez, they look like indigenous Mexicans but as I said, that's because many of them ARE indigenous Mexican but outside of that, they share nothing in common with overall Mexicans.

@mountainechoes1886 3 жыл бұрын

That's funny cause we got last names like that Toro n Alvarez

@MescaleroApache702 3 жыл бұрын

It’s not that they look “Mexican” they look INDIGENOUS AMERICANS

@Soma81 2 жыл бұрын

Better let the Tribe Get their crap out of there

@tabby2957 3 жыл бұрын

That border patrol dude was a master of not answering a question... at all... and still speaking many many words. Big words! Tremendous words! He could have been a lot more honest about what he was not willing to say and cut out all the babble. But no, they're just as transparent as any other government body. Is good. Much good

@bongofury5924 3 жыл бұрын

Better than the Federales ....

@mattacedo 4 ай бұрын

The reservation is being over ran right now, and the TO’s will take all the help they can get right now believe me.

@Civilwar.relics 4 ай бұрын

So this is like due citizenship basically, and you just show your ID and go about your business right? So whats the big deal that's cool you have the privilege to cross the border so easily no problems, from Colorado all the way to Mexico was Mexico until 1845, then tons of Mexican plains Indians and mountain regions Mexican Indians become, native Americans, so wouldn't everyone in these territories originally be native Mexican Indian, that makes a lot of sense, and the cartel is the problem here not anyone else

@lexkeach5726 3 жыл бұрын

Eff the wall

@hailoweenhailoween5264 2 жыл бұрын

Love the Wall.

@mountainechoes1886 3 жыл бұрын

The gangs got stronger organized crime I don't hear them talk n about gangs

@Italianmafia507 Жыл бұрын

What gangs? Lol wannabe cholos on the rez

@seabass7496 3 жыл бұрын

Still coming here to dislike since they told White People to never say the word Woke WOKE

@pedroflores5585 2 жыл бұрын

Mexico is America, Mexico it's North America, Mexico its also the United Mexican Sates so when referring to the USA be specific.

@hailoweenhailoween5264 Жыл бұрын

The only true allies United States has in the Americas is Canada.

@austntexan 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, they look super religious.

@RuggedRockProduction 3 жыл бұрын

Build more , build fast !

@chrismc.4437 3 жыл бұрын

Make her tall!

@MescaleroApache702 3 жыл бұрын

For what reason ?

@xwrtk Жыл бұрын

Many people will still come by plane

@aburningpromise 3 жыл бұрын

This guy is out of breath just by strolling casually...unhealthy habits in the Native community are the true threat.

@gabbym333 3 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately, a lot of those unhealthy "habits" are the result of the U.S. government taking away land that indigenous communities have traditionally used to farm healthy food. After the loss of land, many native communities starved and struggled to find reliable food sources. The U.S. government then supplied the communities with highly processed food, that has significantly contributed to the high rates of obesity and diabetes in Native communities. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/a8uKncpnuq-2m3k.html

@robertvaughan6125 8 күн бұрын

Rented land not bought

@hughtaggart565 3 жыл бұрын

Hahahahaha. I mean, it's "virtually" offensive. I can see a bunch of rioters throwing Molotovs back and forth at each other and not realizing...

@afect53586 3 жыл бұрын

These technologies are going to work great with the border wall!!

@motherwolf1529 3 жыл бұрын

and kill the environment

@FAMEROB 3 жыл бұрын

gluttony is a sin

@LisaBeergutHolst 3 жыл бұрын

So is pride. So don't get too cocky.

@austntexan 3 жыл бұрын

LoL, I hear you. That boy has eaten a few tortillas son.

@lexkeach5726 3 жыл бұрын

Judge not

@chrismc.4437 3 жыл бұрын

You know that Rob!! Old Kenny is 400 hundo!!! He's got it tough on the reservation! He gets it honest from his tubby Uncle Verlon!! These cats will destroy a Taco Bell in a hot second!

@BureauATF 3 жыл бұрын

So you're mad because of reasons? You're upset that countries exist....?

@LisaBeergutHolst 3 жыл бұрын

Indigenous people's lands existed first. What about their rights?

@Hecket 3 жыл бұрын

@@LisaBeergutHolst There are those who argue Vikings were here first and got eradicated some 22.000 years ago.

@LisaBeergutHolst 3 жыл бұрын

@@Hecket Interesting. I had no idea "Vikings" existed before agriculture or metal tools. Tell me more lol

@austntexan 3 жыл бұрын

@@LisaBeergutHolst "We conquered them and took their land. They have no claim to it now." - El Cid, Ghengis Khan, Han Dynasty, Atilla the Hun, Romulus and Remus, etc. . . You people are so tedious.

@LisaBeergutHolst 3 жыл бұрын

@@austntexan So your argument is "might makes right"? Then why have any laws at all? Why not just let everyone fight it out and let the winners take everything?