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Hundreds Protest Construction of Trump’s Border Wall in Sonoran Desert

HeadlineNov 11, 2019

Meanwhile, thousands of miles away, hundreds of people gathered Saturday to protest the construction of a different wall: Trump’s border wall, which is slated to cut through the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument deep in the Sonoran Desert. The wall’s construction is expected to destroy sites sacred to the Tohono O’odham Nation, a Native American nation whose territory is already separated by the U.S.-Mexico border.

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