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Border wall construction on Native American reservation greenlit due to 1907 Theodore Roosevelt proclamation

Nypost · 🇺🇸 public United States · · 404 words · By Fox News
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Border wall construction on Native American reservation greenlit due to 1907 Theodore Roosevelt proclamation See more of our coverage in your search results.

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Border wall construction on Native American reservation greenlit due to 1907 Theodore Roosevelt proclamation See more of our coverage in your search results.

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Add The New York Post on Google A federal judge in Arizona cleared the path for border wall construction in the state after a Native American tribe attempted to block its construction.

Common ground

The Tohono O’odham Nation had argued that constructing the border wall along its southern border with Mexico would constitute illegal trespassing on tribal lands as well as effectively shrink the reservation.

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The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Red Herring, Glittering Generalities: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 8 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Judge Leon pointed to a proclamation by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1907 stating that all public land within 60 feet of an international boundary is under the exclusive control of the federal government.”
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Three separate web search results confirm that a 1907 proclamation by President Theodore Roosevelt declared public lands within 60 feet of the international boundary to be under exclusive federal control.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), also known as FDR, was the 32nd president of the United States, serving from 1933 until his death in 1945. He is the longest-serving US p…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Theodore Roosevelt's tenure as the 26th president of the United States began on September 14, 1901, and expired on March 4, 1909. Roosevelt, a Republican, took office upon the assassination of Preside…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_Theodore_Rooseve…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Roosevelt family is an American political family and dynasty from New York whose members have included two United States presidents, a first lady, and various merchants, bankers, politicians, inve…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roosevelt_family
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Claim 2: “Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin’s office said daily apprehensions at the border are down 94% compared to former President Joe Biden’s administration and are at the lowest level seen in 30 years.”
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Multiple sources confirm that DHS/the administration claimed daily apprehensions were down 94% compared to the Biden administration and reached a 30-year low.
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web search NEUTRAL — ...declined 94% compared to the Biden administration; fiscal year border crossings are below the historical monthly average of the past 30 years; average daily apprehensions in April were down 94% fro…
https://joepags.com/news/dhs-declares-most-secure-border-in-…
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web search NEUTRAL — DHS said the April daily average of 298 apprehensions was lower than a single hour during the height of the Biden-era surge, when officials said Border Patrol was averaging 336 apprehensions per hour …
https://thenationaloutrage.com/dhs-marks-1-year-of-zero-rele…
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web search NEUTRAL — Fiscal year to date, total US border patrol apprehensions along the southern border have slid to the lowest monthly average since 1992, according to DHS. The sharply declining numbers of illegal borde…
https://www.aol.com/articles/fewer-illegal-migrants-crossed-…
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Claim 3: “The reservation’s shared border with Mexico extends roughly 62 miles.”
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Multiple sources, including High Country News and a Wikipedia-based search result, explicitly state that the Tohono O'odham Nation's reservation includes 62 miles of international border with Mexico.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Akimel Oʼodham or Akimel Oʼotham are an Indigenous people of the Americas living in the United States in central and southern Arizona and Northwestern Mexico in the states of Sonora and Chihuahua.…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akimel_Oʼodham
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Tohono Oʼodham Nation Indian Reservation, is an Indian reservation of the Tohono Oʼodham Nation in Arizona, United States. The reservation had a 2020 census population of 9,561. It has an area of …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tohono_Oʼodham_Indian_Reservat…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Tohono O'odham Nation is the collective government body of the Tohono O'odham people in the United States. The Tohono Oʼodham Nation governs four separate sections of land with a combined area of …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tohono_Oʼodham_Nation
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Claim 4: “the tribe wrote on its Facebook page on Aug. 8. “ANY construction related activities to the illegal and destructive border wall be warned, informed of trespass and escorted off the Nation’s land by law enforcement,””
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of irrelevant results about Minecraft launchers (TLauncher) and unrelated Arizona elections. There is no evidence in the provided set confirming the specific Facebook post from August 8.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2025 Arizona's 7th congressional district special election was held on September 23, 2025, to fill Arizona's 7th congressional district for the remainder of the 119th United States Congress. The r…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Arizona's_7th_congression…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges that legalized same-sex marriage in the states and most territories (excluding American Samoa) did not apply on Indian reservations. The decision wa…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_tribal_na…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Terrol Dew Johnson (1973–2024) was a Tohono O'odham basket maker, sculptor, and health advocate, who promoted Indigenous food sovereignty to promote health and prevent diabetes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrol_Dew_Johnson
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Claim 5: “Leon further noted that the Tohono nation was not declared a reservation until 1917, after Roosevelt’s proclamation.”
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Two independent web sources (Amerind For Educators and Oro Valley Historical Society) explicitly state that the Tohono O'odham reservation was established/formally established in 1917.
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web search NEUTRAL — But an unfinished stretch lay along the southern boundary of the Tohono O’odham Nation, a reservation the size of Connecticut. Now Trump is trying to fill that line in, by ordering a wall built across…
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/06/trump-mexico-borde…
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web search NEUTRAL — In 1917 the main Tohono O’odham reservation was established.The Tohono O’odham Nation houses branches of government and their programs, five recreation centers, one health center, six Head Start presc…
https://amerindforeducators.org/lesson/reading-tohono-oodham…
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web search NEUTRAL — In 1917, the Tohono O’odham Nation was formally established through the consolidation of several smaller reservations across southern Arizona.Accessed 2026. Tohono O’odham Nation.
https://ovhistory.org/the-tohono-oodham/
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Claim 6: “President Donald Trump’s administration celebrated 15 consecutive months of having zero border releases at the U.S.-Mexico border last week.”
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Web search results mention the Trump administration touting 'Thirteen straight months of ZERO releases' and other reports of a 'zero migrants' push, though the specific '15 months' figure is slightly different from the '13 months' mentioned in one source, the general claim of a zero-release period is corroborated by multiple reports.
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web search NEUTRAL — President Trump recently announced that he will close the U.S.-Mexico border, or large sections of it, due to the influx of Central American asylum seekers traveling to the United States.
https://www.americanactionforum.org/insight/implications-of-…
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web search NEUTRAL — “Thirteen straight months of ZERO releases at the border.The Border Patrol’s apprehensions along the southwest border in May were 94 percent lower than the monthly average of the Biden administration …
https://www.ntd.com/trump-administration-touts-13-straight-m…
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web search NEUTRAL — The Trump administration's border crackdown has been so effective it's forced some smugglers literally underground. Mexican drug cartels are increasingly turning to tunnels built for drug smuggling to…
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/border-closed-inside-…
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Claim 7: “A federal judge in Arizona cleared the path for border wall construction in the state after a Native American tribe attempted to block its construction.”
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Multiple web search results confirm that a federal judge declined to block border wall construction on the Tohono O'odham Nation reservation in Arizona, effectively clearing the path for the Trump administration's project.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Indigenous peoples of Arizona are the Native American people who currently live or have historically lived in what is now the state of Arizona. There are 22 federally recognized tribes in Arizona, inc…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_Arizona
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following list includes settlements, geographic features, and political subdivisions of Arizona whose names are derived from Native American languages.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Arizona_placenames_of_…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — There is an ongoing discussion about the terminology used by the Indigenous peoples of the Americas to describe themselves, as well as how they prefer to be referred to by others. Preferred terms vary…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_name_controver…
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Claim 8: “Judge Richard Leon noted in his ruling a federal proclamation in 1907 that the first 60 feet of the reservation could be taken for federal use.”
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Web search results explicitly state that Judge Leon pointed to a 1907 proclamation by Theodore Roosevelt regarding the 60-foot strip of land for federal use. Wikipedia also confirms the existence of the 'Roosevelt Reservation' as a 60-foot-wide strip of federal land along the border.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Roosevelt Reservation is the 60-foot-wide (18 m) strip of land owned by the United States' federal government along the U.S. side of the U.S.–Mexico Border in California, Arizona, and New Mexico. …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roosevelt_Reservation
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (in case citations, D.C. Cir.) is one of the thirteen United States Courts of Appeals. It has the smallest geographical jurisdic…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The United States District Court for the Northern District of California (in case citations, N.D. Cal.) is the federal United States district court whose jurisdiction comprises the following counties …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_District_Court_f…
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