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Border Patrol Locked out of Indian Reservation Known for Mexican Drug Trafficking
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Border Patrol Locked out of Indian Reservation Known for Mexican Drug Trafficking
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An Indian reservation along the Mexican border is prohibiting the Border Patrol from entering its land, which is a notorious smuggling corridor determined by the U.S. government to be a “High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA).” Homeland Security sources tell Judicial Watch that the road in the southeast corner of the reservation has been cordoned off by a barbed wired gate to keep officers out. A hand-written cardboard sign reading “Closed, Do Not Open” has been posted on the fence. “This is the location used most for trafficking drugs into the country,” a Border Patrol source told JW, adding that agents assigned to the area are “livid.”
The tribe, Tohono O’odham, created the barricade a few weeks ago, Border Patrol sources tell JW, specifically to keep agents out of the reservation which is located in the south central Arizona Sonoran Desert and shares about 75 miles of border with Mexico. The reservation terrain consists largely of mountains and desert making it difficult to patrol. For years it has appeared on the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) HIDTA list because it’s a significant center of illegal drug production, manufacturing, importation and distribution. The reservation is a primary transshipment zone for methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin and marijuana destined for the United States, a DEA official revealed in congressional testimony a few years ago. In 2015 Arizona led all four Border Patrol sectors in drug seizures with 928,858 pounds of drugs confiscated, according to agency figures.
The relationship between the Border Patrol and the tribe has been stormy over the years, with accusations of human rights violations by federal agents and allegations that the agents’ presence has implemented a police state. Though only 75 miles runs along the Mexican border, the reservation is about 2.8 million acres or roughly the size of Connecticut and has about 30,000 members. The tribe’s official website says that nine of its communities are located in Mexico and they are separated by the United States/Mexico border. “In fact, the U.S.-Mexico border has become an artificial barrier to the freedom of the Tohono O’odham,” the tribe claims. “On countless occasions, the U.S. Border Patrol has detained and deported members of the Tohono O’odham Nation who were simply traveling through their own traditional lands, practicing migratory traditions essential to their religion, economy and culture. Similarly, on many occasions U.S. Customs have prevented Tohono O’odham from transporting raw materials and goods essential for their spirituality, economy and traditional culture. Border officials are also reported to have confiscated cultural and religious items, such as feathers of common birds, pine leaves or sweet grass.”
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May 25 2016, 12:24 PM
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They're locked out for good reason, they have no legal jurisdiction there. You have an issue, bring it up thru the Tribal Council via the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The BP and Customs have consistently screwed with them. They've done the same with the Mohawks in upstate NY because their reservation does the same thing, it straddles the US and Canada.
The tribes have not always had good relations with Federal Law Enforcement agencies. My Father called the FBI the Federal Bureau of Intimidation
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May 25 2016, 12:31 PM
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Looks like some sunlight on the issue got the interlopers to reconsider....
Update: a few hours after Judicial Watch posted this story, Border Patrol officials in Arizona reported that the road has been reopened.
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May 25 2016, 12:34 PM
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The Border Patrol knows it doesn't have jurisdiction on Tribal land. So, why doesn't it attempt to build cooperative efforts like it does with Mexico and Canada, building some trust and cooperation from the Tribes? I can't believe that the Tribal Council is fine with illegal drugs funneling through the reservations and the inevitable additional misery it creates on the reservations. So I would imagine that if the Border Patrol was to make some efforts to calm the waters and create a partnership, it would be met with at least some interest.
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May 25 2016, 12:38 PM
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The Border Patrol knows it doesn't have jurisdiction on Tribal land. So, why doesn't it attempt to build cooperative efforts like it does with Mexico and Canada, building some trust and cooperation from the Tribes? I can't believe that the Tribal Council is fine with illegal drugs funneling through the reservations and the inevitable additional misery it creates on the reservations. So I would imagine that if the Border Patrol was to make some efforts to calm the waters and create a partnership, it would be met with at least some interest.
Well if you can't believe than it must be true that the option of large piles of money in exchange for protected passage through non patrolled lands is not possible....ah...ok.....
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The Border Patrol knows it doesn't have jurisdiction on Tribal land. So, why doesn't it attempt to build cooperative efforts like it does with Mexico and Canada, building some trust and cooperation from the Tribes? I can't believe that the Tribal Council is fine with illegal drugs funneling through the reservations and the inevitable additional misery it creates on the reservations. So I would imagine that if the Border Patrol was to make some efforts to calm the waters and create a partnership, it would be met with at least some interest.
Well if you can't believe than it must be true that the option of large piles of money in exchange for protected passage through non patrolled lands is not possible....ah...ok..... Possible? Sure. Native Americans are not much different from the white man where money is involved.
But their land is their land. We either work with them or we violate our treaties with them.
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May 25 2016, 12:57 PM
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The Border Patrol knows it doesn't have jurisdiction on Tribal land. So, why doesn't it attempt to build cooperative efforts like it does with Mexico and Canada, building some trust and cooperation from the Tribes? I can't believe that the Tribal Council is fine with illegal drugs funneling through the reservations and the inevitable additional misery it creates on the reservations. So I would imagine that if the Border Patrol was to make some efforts to calm the waters and create a partnership, it would be met with at least some interest.
Well if you can't believe than it must be true that the option of large piles of money in exchange for protected passage through non patrolled lands is not possible....ah...ok..... What, you say there is proof the entire Toño are part of a vast criminal enterprise? Or more then likely 30,000 tribal members over a territory the size of Connecticut simply is to big to monitor by the Tribal Police?
And yes, it may also be true there are bribes for passage being done. We're not immune to "large piles of money" either. I just don't assume it.
OP is right.....the Canadians don't have this problem because they work with the Indigenous at every level of authority.
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May 25 2016, 01:49 PM
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The Border Patrol knows it doesn't have jurisdiction on Tribal land. So, why doesn't it attempt to build cooperative efforts like it does with Mexico and Canada, building some trust and cooperation from the Tribes? I can't believe that the Tribal Council is fine with illegal drugs funneling through the reservations and the inevitable additional misery it creates on the reservations. So I would imagine that if the Border Patrol was to make some efforts to calm the waters and create a partnership, it would be met with at least some interest.
Well if you can't believe than it must be true that the option of large piles of money in exchange for protected passage through non patrolled lands is not possible....ah...ok.....
What, you say there is proof the entire Toño are part of a vast criminal enterprise? Or more then likely 30,000 tribal members over a territory the size of Connecticut simply is to big to monitor by the Tribal Police? And yes, it may also be true there are bribes for passage being done. We're not immune to "large piles of money" either. I just don't assume it. OP is right.....the Canadians don't have this problem because they work with the Indigenous at every level of authority. The Canadians don't have this problem because on their border they have Americans....and Canadians....not the case with this OP....
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What, you say there is proof the entire Toño are part of a vast criminal enterprise? Or more then likely 30,000 tribal members over a territory the size of Connecticut simply is to big to monitor by the Tribal Police? And yes, it may also be true there are bribes for passage being done. We're not immune to "large piles of money" either. I just don't assume it. OP is right.....the Canadians don't have this problem because they work with the Indigenous at every level of authority.
The Canadians don't have this problem because on their border they have Americans....and Canadians....not the case with this OP.... The Point was the Canadian Government doesn't trample on the First Nation's governments like ours has. They go to great lengths to include the Indigenous peoples in everything that has to do with them.
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May 25 2016, 02:46 PM
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Mexico is in North America. Same as the US and Canada. All of us are "Americans"
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