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U.S. #BorderPatrol Harasses #TohonoOodham Community on Birthday of Murdered #RaymondMattia

By #OfeliaRivas, Tohono O'odham, #CensoredNews, May 18, 2025

GU-VO District, Tohono O'odham Nation -- "Harassment on Ray's birthday and a cultural meeting.

"It's continuous intimidation warfare tactics on the community,

"Also there is a death in the community.

"They told the district officials that there was suspicious activities going on. We are preparing for the cultural meeting, getting firewood.

"The family lost a young man in his 30's, we're in sad mourning."

Read and listen to more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/05/us-border-patrol-harasses-tohono-oodham.html

#ReaderSupportedNews #JusticeForRayMattia #MurderPatrol #JusticeForRay #ACAB #CBP #CivilRightsViolation #Arizona

Cops Are Already Unleashed. #Trump Is Telling Them to Run Wild.

By Radley Balko, May 2, 2025

https://theintercept.com/2025/05/02/trump-police-executive-order/

#TrumpIsAFascist #ACAB #Gestapo #CopsGoneWild #Unleashed #USPol #BorderPatrol #MurderPatrol #CharacteristicsOfFascism

#Army control of #USMexicoBorder buffer zone may funnel migrants to 62-mile stretch of #TribalLand in #Arizona

Emma Paterson/Cronkite News
April 25, 2025

WASHINGTON – "Some Arizona border officials have welcomed President Donald Trump’s order for a military takeover at the U.S-Mexico border.

"But migrant advocates fear that by sealing hundreds of miles of border in the Southwest, the troops will effectively funnel migrants to far more dangerous crossing points. And #environmentalists warn of damage to habitats that support nearly two dozen #endangered species.

" 'Militarizing the border has historically only ramped up deaths,' said James Holeman, founder of Battalion Search and Rescue, a group of volunteers who hike through desolate regions of Arizona and New Mexico searching for remains of migrants who couldn’t survive the desert.

" 'You’re talking about vulnerable people that are making very deadly choices,' he said.

"On April 11, Trump ordered the military to take control of the #RooseveltReservation – a 60-foot wide strip of federal land along the border from the Pacific Ocean to New Mexico.

"Turning the border into a military base would get around the 1878 #PosseComitatus Act, which prohibits the military from engaging directly in civilian law enforcement. #Migrants would be subject to military arrest for trespassing within the federal zone.

"That zone and Trump’s order cover Arizona’s four border counties – Yuma, Pima, Santa Cruz and Cochise – except for a 62 mile stretch of Pima County controlled by the #TohonoOOdhamNation.

"Holeman, among others, expects that gap to become an even bigger magnet for human trafficking.

"The tribe’s ancestral lands span the border, and roughly 2,000 of 34,000 members live on the Mexican side.

"Tribal leaders declined opportunities to discuss the situation.

"Even before the military build-up to the east and west, the reservation was a hot spot for illegal crossings. The tribe’s stretch of border is relatively flat. And it’s secured with vehicle barriers and large-gapped cattle fencing that don’t impede people, because the tribe refused to allow wall construction during Trump’s first term."

#BorderPatrol #MurderPatrol #ICE #USPol #TohonoOOdham

#OfeliaRivas, Tohono O'odham, speaks with #FirstVoicesRadio host #TiokasinGhosthorse, Lakota.

"Ofelia describes how the U.S. #BorderPatrol murdered her friend #RaymondMattia, #TohonoOodham,
at his home on the Tohono O'odham Nation.

"Ofelia shares how Ray's father was her spiritual mentor and taught her about O'odham ceremonies.

"'Raymond is my ceremony brother, and I have a lot of respect for him.'

"Ofelia describes the moments leading up to Ray's murder when about 25 U.S. Border Patrol trucks arrived. After murdering Raymond, Ofelia could hear the U.S. Border Patrol agents laughing about murdering him. The gunfire included two shots from the back, and U.S. Border Patrol agents bashed in Raymond's body after he was shot and dying."

Listen:
https://radiokingston.org/en/broadcast/first-voices-radio/episodes/ofelia-rivas-guest
#MurderPatrol #JusticeForRay #JusticeForRayMattia #ACAB #CivilRightsViolation #Arizona #ReaderSupportedNews

U.S. Justice Department Rejects #CivilRights Complaint Filed for Murder of #RaymondMattia by #USBorderPatrol

By #OpheliaRivas, O'odham Voice Against the Wall, via #CensoredNews, January 6, 2025

"The system of justice for the killing of an American Indian is as expected by the people. The numerous federal agents on the Tohono O'odham reservation are justified in killing our people as they will not be held accountable by the system that pays them to be heavily armed and unmonitored on our land.

"The border patrol have not been prosecuted for deaths, rapes, molestations and human and drug trafficking.

"The Criminal Section of the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice wrote to me:

"'The tragic death of Raymond Mattia, who was shot and killed at his home, by officers of U.S Customs and Border Patrol agents Whitehouse, SiFuentes, and Torralva, on May 18, 2023.'

'Mr. Mattia’s death was indeed a tragic loss. Mr. Mattia’s death was indeed a tragic loss. However, the information provided about the circumstances surrounding his death does not disclose a prosecutable violation of the federal criminal civil rights statutes enforced by the Criminal Section. Therefore, we regret that we are unable to assist with this matter."

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/01/us-justice-dept-rejects-civil-rights.html

#JusticeForRay #JusticeForRayMattia #ACAB #CivilRightsViolation
#Murder #Tohono #Oodham #Arizona #MurderPatrol

So, again, it's okay for the #BorderPatrol (#MurderPatrol) to assassinate an unarmed #NativeAmerican man (#RaymondMattia) and a #LithiumMining employee to run over a #NativeAmericanActivist (#MyronDewey), but those acts aren't #Terrorism? I guess it's all about how much MONEY and CLOUT the victim has, eh?

U.S. Border Patrol Agents who Murdered #RaymondMattia, #TohonoOodham, Identified

Tucson Sentinel, reporter Paul Ingram, reports: "Three #BorderPatrol agents involved in the fatal shooting of a Tohono O'odham man in front of his home in 2023 were identified in legal filings on Friday.

"Earlier this year, the family of 58-year-old Raymond Mattia filed a lawsuit, accusing Border Patrol of excessive force and demanding the names of the agents who killed him.

"Attorneys Ryan Stitt and Marcus Bourassa filed an amended complaint, and on Friday issued a summons for Border Patrol Agents Scott Whitehouse, Dan Sifuentes, and Ivan Torralva, who they said 'shot and killed Raymond for no reason.'

"'Despite the lack of a threat and his compliance, at least three of the agents met his compliant calm demeanor with a hail of gunfire,' the attorneys wrote. Whitehouse, Sifuentes, and Torralva 'all fired their weapons at Mr. Mattia."

Excerpt posted in #CensoredNews:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/12/us-border-patrol-agents-who-murdered.html

#ACAB #JusticeForRaymondMattia #CivilRightsViolation #Murder #JusticeForRayMattia #Tohono #Oodham #Arizona #MurderPatrol

#Tohono #Oodham Police Vendetta Revealed in Murder of #RaymondMattia

By Brenda Norrell, #CensoredNews

December 21, 2023

"The vendetta of a Tohono O'odham Nation police officer is revealed by attorneys for the family of Raymond Mattia, Tohono O'odham, who was murdered when Tohono O'odham police and U.S. Border Patrol agents fired 38 shots at him, striking him with nine bullets, in front of his home.

"'I don’t know exactly where that motherfucker is at,' a Tohono O'odham Nation police officer told U.S. Border Patrol agents as they met shortly before Raymond was murdered.

"The statement was revealed by the family's attorneys. The Tohono O'odham Nation police department refuses to release the officer's name. Neither the U.S. Border Patrol, nor the Tohono O'odham Nation Police Department, have released all of the officer body cam recordings of Raymond's murder. Only an edited portion has been released to the public.

"Federal prosecutors are now part of the cover-up and refuse to file charges against the officer and agents who fired the shots at Raymond, murdering him in front of his home in Ali Jegk, less than a mile north of the border, on May 18, 2023.
U.S. Department of Justice employees met with the family in Sells to discuss their decision but refused to provide the family with details about what happened that night.

"During a series of interviews between 2011 and 2013, on the border in Raymond's community, Ali Jegk, Raymond told Censored News that he videotaped U.S. Border Patrol agents escorting Mexican cartels bringing drug loads across the border. When Raymond submitted the evidence, it vanished.

"The new details of Raymond's murder are stated by attorneys for his family in a letter, which notified the Customs and Border Patrol of the family's intent to file a wrongful death lawsuit.

"It reveals that Raymond never acted aggressively."

Full article:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/12/tohono-oodham-police-vendetta-revealed.html

#JusticeForRaymondMattia
#ACAB #JusticeForRaymond #TohonoOodham #Arizona #MurderPatrol

#MurderPatrol

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