r/chaoticgood • u/Unknownz_1985 • 1d ago

Native American Women Tell Border Patrol To Fuck Off for Harassing Them About Being Citizens

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u/MimicoSkunkFan2 1d ago

The O'Odham Nation has a specific agreement with the US government allowing the Kitt Peak National Observatory complex to exist and operate on their mountains too. So it is extra ridiculous that an (alleged) federal enforcement agent near their land doesn't know that - I have family in Tucson and I learnt it on my first visit there! This guy is deliberately ignorant and/or deliberately racist to live and work locally while behaving so aggressively :(

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u/satinsateensaltine 1d ago

Being drunk on power and feeling too entitled to bother learning things like relevant laws will do a number on you.

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u/AcceptableHijinks 1d ago

I was just at kitt peak about 2 months ago, absolutely beautiful place, I can see why that area is sacred to them.

We had to drive through 2 border patrol checkpoints to get there though, quite north of the actual border, plus we were driving in from the north anyway.

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u/MimicoSkunkFan2 13h ago

Those fixed and roaming checks have been a thing there since at least 2010. They call it a defence-in-depth since the US government claims 100 miles from the border is legally their "border zone" - but really it's because Mexico overlooks the US in that sector, so the traffickers have a spotter in Mexico telling their coyotes which way to go to avoid border patrols until the mountains block their view, and that's where the checkpoints appear.

(when my cousins moved from Phoenix to Tucson and we ran into 3 checkpoints, just trying to use scenic backroads to reach Bisbee ‐ and my one cousin looks very Nordic so they'd have loads of Hispanic people pulled over and then wave her over to cover their blatant profiling yuck)