The Border Patrol recorded 14,197 encounters with Indian citizens in fiscal year 2024, compared to 1,630 in 2023 and only 237 encounters a year earlier. “It is an extremely populated country,” Mr.

The Tohono O’odham reservation stretches more than 2.7 million acres in the Sonoran Desert and is roughly the size of Connecticut. More than 62 miles of the sovereign land lies on the border ...

Indian social media is full of content from young men making the treacherous journey to the U.S.-Mexico border — before ...

The Tohono O'odham Nation, a Native American reservation about the size of Connecticut, is located in the Sonoran Desert, about 60 miles south of Tucson, Ariz., right on the U.S. border with Mexico.

Construction crews began blasting sites within Arizona’s Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument as part of the construction of President Trump’s border barrier, and the affected areas include ...

The Tohono O'odham Nation, a Native American tribe in southern Arizona opposed to building a border wall that could imperil wildlife and artifacts in the area's fragile landscape, is accusing the ...

United States Customs and Border Protection, the umbrella agency of the Border Patrol, has reported an average of roughly 15 use-of-force incidents involving guns each year since 2020.

The vehicle barrier on the US-Mexico border weaves around Saguaro cactus in the Sonoran desert on the Tohono O’odham reservation in Chukut Kuk, Arizona. (Reuters / Rick Wilking) By signing up ...

The Ysleta and more than two dozen American Indian tribes - designated by U.S. law as sovereign nations governing themselves - live along the 1,900 mile (3,060 km) border with Mexico, with some ...