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June 24, 2025

Indigenous Groups Warn Against More Border Wall Construction in Arizona
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This comes as CBP has awarded more than $309 million to a North
Dakota-based company to build 27 more miles of border wall along
Arizona's border with Mexico. Environmental groups and Indigenous
communities in the borderlands have long opposed further wall
construction in the Sonoran Desert as they warn of ecological disasters;
while activists say the barrier will continue to force migrants to cross
through more remote and dangerous areas of the desert where thousands
have died attempting to reach the United States.


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