Judge refuses to block Trump administration from building border wall along tribe's reservation
The judge found the tribe had not shown the wall would alter reservation boundaries and said border security and public safety outweighed the claimed harms.
- A federal judge has declined to stop the Trump administration from moving forward with plans for a 62-mile border wall along the Tohono O’odham Nation’s Arizona reservation without the tribe’s consent.
- Judge Richard Leon ruled that the tribe had not shown the project would alter its reservation boundaries without congressional authorization or amount to unlawful trespassing.
- The Tohono O’odham Nation argued that construction could damage sacred mountains and natural resources, disrupt religious practices, and separate families and communities that live on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.
- Leon concluded that, at this stage, the federal government’s interests in border security, immigration enforcement and public safety outweighed the potential harms cited by the tribe, allowing the project to proceed.
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Judge denies Arizona Tohono O’odham request to halt border wall construction
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A federal judge just handed the Trump administration a massive victory related to construction of the Border Wall. In a Friday ruling, Judge Richard Leon gave President Trump the go-ahead to continue construction of the southern border wall along a Native American tribe’s reservation. The Tohono O’odham Nation had petitioned the court to block border wall construction on their reservation in Arizona. However, the request was denied. Here are the…
Judge refuses to halt Trump plan to build border wall along tribal lands
A federal judge for the District Court of the District of Columbia sided with the Trump administration by shutting down a request from a Native American tribal nation to block the southern border wall from spanning across their territory. U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon, appointed by former President George W. Bush, refused to grant a preliminary injunction requested by the Tohono O’odham Nation that would have blocked the Trump administrati…
Federal Judge Declines to Block Border Wall Construction on Arizona Tribal Land
A federal judge on Aug. 14 refused to block the Trump administration from building a border wall spanning 62 miles of a Native American tribe’s reservation lands in southern Arizona. In an 18-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Richard Leon declined to issue a preliminary injunction sought by the Tohono O’odham Nation to prevent the government from constructing a border wall on its reservation lands bordering Mexico. Leon said the Roosevelt Reserva…
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