Native Americans Caught in Border Strife on Their Own Land
It was pitch black when the Border Patrol rolled up to Raymond Mattia’s home on a remote corner of the Tohono O’odham reservation in southern Arizona, investigating a report of gunshots. Border agents, smugglers and migrants were a familiar sight in the tiny desert village a mile from the southern border where the Mattia family had lived for decades. Mattia often patrolled his property with a flashlight, his family said. That night in May, Mattia told an older sister over the phone that he was h