Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott announced his agency will move forward with a planned 62-mile border infrastructure project, known as the Tucson 5 project, in Arizona. After a federal judge earlier this month denied the Tohono O’odham Nation’s request to halt the project, the tribe now vows to cite contractors for trespassing on native lands. The tribe has pinned its hopes on the lawsuit, filed against the Department of Homeland Security in June, alleging the project would diminish the boundaries of the Nation’s Reservation. Although the underlying lawsuit remains pending, a preliminary injunction to halt the project has been denied.
