The H�ah�u Tribe of Mexico is offering an unusual new service: fake border crossings.
Participants pay about $15 to the tribe for an authentic experience. Led by tribal members, they spend six hours at night avoiding fake U.S. Border Patrol agents in their attempt to get to the United States.
The tribe organizes the tours as a way to promote tribal culture but also to call attention to the dangers faced by migrants. The tribe estimates as 90 percent of the 2,500 members have made the journey to the border.
Get the Story:
Make-believe 'illegal' border trek becomes tourist attraction in Mexico
(Cox News Service 8/23)
Related Stories:
Tohono O'odham Nation seeks money for border
(8/18)
Boy dies after crossing
Tohono O'odham Nation border (06/06)
Border tribes face threats from migrants, drug
trade (03/21)
Shadow Wolves combat flow of drugs into United
States (11/09)
Brother of O'odham chair
arrested for drugs (09/27)
Tohono
O'odham Nation can't stop immigrants (07/22)
Arizona tribes focus on homeland security
(07/21)
'Patriots' to patrol reservation
despite warning (6/10)
Cocopah Tribe
tells 'Patriots' group to stay away (6/9)
Homeland Security Secretary skips Tohono
O'odham (05/04)
Chase results in death
on Tohono O'odham Nation (03/03)
Tribal
actions in border-crossing case upheld (02/03)
Drug cartels offer $500K to kill Shadow Wolves
(11/09)
Shadow Wolves training border guards
overseas (10/06)
Some Tohono O'odham say
no to border barriers (07/21)
Tohono
O'odham Nation dealing with border 'crisis' (04/13)
Tohono O'odham Nation dealing with years of
neglect (03/22)
Environmental woes
plague Tohono O'odham Nation (03/04)
Tohono O'odham Nation in line for border
security funds (02/18)
Tohono
O'odham Nation to press for citizenship bill (02/04)
Tribal homeland security legislation in
limbo (01/29)
Bill's tribal
jurisdiction provisions contested (07/31)
Tribes air homeland security concerns
(7/30)
Homeland security
push leaves tribes behind (05/12)
Opinion: Pass Tohono O'odham
citizenship bill (05/05)
A
third of O'odham tribal members lack papers (04/30)
Testimony at border hearing filled
with complaints (03/11)
Tohono O'odham Nation hosts border
issues hearing (3/10)
Inouye ties sovereignty to homeland
security (02/25)
Ariz.
congressman makes tribe a priority (02/20)
O'odham citizenship bill
reintroduced (02/13)
Aid to
border crossers criticized (09/26)
Tribe seizes 300 pounds of drugs
daily (9/25)
Mexican
migrants stress tribal hospitals (9/24)
Four bodies recovered on Ariz.
reservation (8/30)
Tribe
sees double standard on border (8/12)
Mexico's President invites tribal
leaders (8/05)
Changes
sought in U.S. border policy (6/18)
Ariz. tribe wrests with border issue
(6/13)
Ariz. tribal pastor
claims intimidation (6/11)
Border arrests increase on
reservation (6/7)
Ariz.
tribe pushes citizenship bill (6/4)
Bush announces Mexican border
plan (3/22)
Tribal members
fear border harassment (11/26)
Tough border policy rejects Mexicans
(10/2)
Machines not ready for tough
border policy (10/1)
Border
policy could affect Tohono O'odham (9/27)
Tohono O'odham elder dies (8/29)
O'odham citizenship bill pushed
(6/29)
O'odham delegation on
way to D.C. (5/31)
Tribe
protests border policies (5/29)
Citizenship for Mexican O'odham
sought (1/12)
Tribe in Mexico arranges fake border crossings
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Trending in News
1 Tribes rush to respond to new coronavirus emergency created by Trump administration
2 'At this rate the entire tribe will be extinct': Zuni Pueblo sees COVID-19 cases double as first death is confirmed
3 Arne Vainio: 'A great sickness has been visited upon us as human beings'
4 Arne Vainio: Zoongide'iwin is the Ojibwe word for courage
5 Cayuga Nation's division leads to a 'human rights catastrophe'
2 'At this rate the entire tribe will be extinct': Zuni Pueblo sees COVID-19 cases double as first death is confirmed
3 Arne Vainio: 'A great sickness has been visited upon us as human beings'
4 Arne Vainio: Zoongide'iwin is the Ojibwe word for courage
5 Cayuga Nation's division leads to a 'human rights catastrophe'