US Halts Plan to Build Border Wall on Carrizo Comecrudo Cemetery

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By Brenda Norrell

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The U.S. Customs and Border Protection said it will not build Trump's Border Wall on the historic Eli Jackson Cemetery. The site is being protected by a camp of Carrizo Comecrudo tribal members and their supporters at Yalui Village.

"The U.S. government says it won't build President Donald Trump's border wall on the site of a historic cemetery that might have required the exhumation of graves," AP reported today.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued a statement saying it would "avoid" the Eli Jackson Cemetery while "still meeting Border Patrol's operational requirements for border wall."
The U.S. Congress halted plans to build the border wall on the National Butterfly Center property, but the appropriations could change at any time, warns the director.

Last week, Govinda Dalton, reporting live, shared this video with Censored News. 

Trump's Three Private Prison Contractors Making Millions Caging Children

Children and families caged under Paso Del Norte Bridge in El Paso by US Homeland Security. Twitter photo Bob Moore.

Private prisons continue their abuse with assaults, rape, unnecessary solitary confinement and sexual predators

By Brenda Norrell
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TUCSON -- Private prisons made over $800 million at 19 immigration prisons in 2018, according to a letter from Mass. Senator Elizabeth Warren dated May 31, 2019.
GEO Group (formerly Wackenhut), CoreCIVIC and MTC (Management and Training Corporation) are the three corporations receiving the lush contracts under the Trump administration.
Sen. Warren stated in a letter to the American Correctional Corporation, which gives accreditation to these corporations, that private prisons have a history of assaults, lockdowns, inmate discipline and other abuse.
The letter from Sen. Warren states mildly the abuse in private prisons. Six children have died in ICE detainment and private prisons this year. The documented abuse in migrant private prisons in the United States includes assaults by prison staff, unjustified solitary confinement, rape, and sexual and physical abuse of children.
Censored News reported in 2007, during the Obama Administration, that children were being imprisoned in Hutto Prison in Texas.
The widespread abuse of migrants during the Trump Administration is a violation of human rights and International law that continues.

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When San Carlos Apaches Were Censored: When Truth was Stolen and a US Congressman Went to Prison

By Brenda Norrell 

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Today, I came across this censored article that I wrote as a staff writer for Indian Country Today 15 years ago. It was good to read the words again of Ola Cassadore Davis, San Carlos Apache, who passed to the Spirit World.

Perhaps Arizona Rep. Rick Renzi should have listened to the Apache elders when they warned him about violating what is sacred. 

Tiokasin Features Testimony from Human Rights Hearing in Jamaica on First Voices Radio Today

Photo Leoyla Cowboy, Dine', wife of Little Feather, testifies on Standing Rock water protector political prisoners. Leoyla read a statement from Red Fawn.

Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Lakota, Features Testimony from Human Rights Hearing in Jamaica on First Voices Radio Today

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Listen today online and on radio stations across North America in upcoming days, as Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Cheyenne River Lakota, airs testimony from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Jamaica.

Urgent Donation Request: O'odham Voice Against the Wall to Protect O'odham Rights

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