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28 Mar 2017

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AFP, Dailymail.com

Native tribe fear Trump's Mexico wall will divide them

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…Indigenous people from the Tohono O'odham ethnic group dance and sing to protest against US President Donald Trump's intention to build a new wall in the border between Mexico and United States, in the Altar desert, northern Mexico…The US-Mexico frontier runs through more than just the deserts of Sonora and Arizona. For the Tohono O'odham with their eagle totem, it divides their people…These are their ancestral lands…Tohono leaders plan to take their claim against the wall to the United Nations along with other Native American tribes, said one of them, Mike Wilson."It is a form of human rights violation," he says, because it would deny freedom of movement to members of a tribe on their own territory…The Mexican government has also promised to support a case the tribe is planning to file next month at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights…