we re a federally recognized tribe, tohono o odham nation, and our enrollment has about 34,000 with approximately 2,000 of them living in what is now mexico. we traverse this what we call invisible border, the national boundary, daily, you know, for domestic, religious, and ceremonial purposes. what are your thoughts on suddenly someone says this is the border, if you re on this side, you re with these people and if you re on this side, you re with these people. yeah, when i first toured the border, i noticed there was a house on the u.s. side and the well was on the mexican side. so they got to go four miles to the north to get the water from the well and haul it back to their house. there is no plumbing. we have to go to the well and pump it into the barrels to take it back home. i mean, it s silly when you hear that. it just seems ridiculous. if they put up that wall, it s really going to make it difficult for us because now we
on tuesday. a week out here last night. this is cecilia, for people like her with no prior record and arrested at the border, she was sent to a u.s. federal court and given a choice, plead guilty for a petty misdemeanor and get deported immediately or risk sitting in jail for months awaiting a trial. what do you think she chose? was the trip like to the border? [speaking foreign language]. cecilia s plan was to cross the border, find work, save money and return to mexico and open a business. she had no plans to stay. did you try to figure out if there was a legal way to get to americ america? hearing about what cecilia
i.c.e. picks you up, suddenly you re back in mexico. i would imagine at some point you are stuck with what do i do next? we have people who grew up in the united states so for some of them, they are in a foreign country. what do you feel doing the work here? i don t think the foreign ill gra ingrags policy represents us. the american thing to do would give people access to family, opportunity and community. that s something we are promoting. my wife will be happy i ran into a priest. maybe i can be a catholic. after talking with father sean, i wanted to get involved. i wanted to hear the stories of the people i helped serve. the crowd is a mix of people who have been living in the u.s. for awhile. and others who were there for just a few days.
comcast business gives you gig-speed in more places. the others don t. we offer up to 6 hours of 4g wireless network backup. everyone else, no way. we let calls from any of your devices come from your business number. them, not so much. we let you keep an eye on your business from anywhere. the others? nope! get internet on our gig-speed network and add voice and tv for $34.90 more per month. call or go on line today. completely lost in the u.s./mexico wall hysteria is a once indigenous tribe named the tohono o odham. they have been more affected by this imaginary line called the border than anybody else, because this land was there home long before the u.s. and mexico even existed.
let s try spanish. so you re from southerna mexico. zblees where do you live now. here? better than i thought. you re get going. i m get going. what are you doing today? we should go back to english. i heard you work. that s you will i got. oh. so it s it s true that american citizens can come to mexico and buy pharmaceutical drugs wutt a prescription? what about cialis. i m just asking for a friend. okay. for a guy i know, yeah. is safe in this town. it s a safe place, yes. do you think this wall will