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YOUTUBE (MS NOW) - ‘I don’t know where this stops’: Trump’s border wall decimates indigenous land

For the Tohono O’odham Nation, the indigenous inhabitants of southwestern Arizona, the giant saguaro cacti are considered people. Contractors building Trump’s border wall are uprooting them, destroying many other sacred sites and crucial biodiversity along the way. “A bulldozer can destroy in minutes what it took the Sonoran Desert hundreds of years to create,” said Russ McSpadden of the Center for Biological Diversity.

YOUTUBE (MS NOW) - Trump is destroying sacred Indigenous land to build his border wall

The Tohono O’odham Nation, the Indigenous inhabitants of southwestern Arizona, consider the giant saguaro cacti to be sacred relatives with living spirits. Now, contractors building Trump’s border wall are uprooting them, and destroying many other Indigenous sites along the way. Jacob Soboroff sits down with Russ McSpadden from the Center for Biological Diversity and Verlon M. Jose, the Chairman of the Tohono O’odham Nation, to learn more.