Tribal Leaders Warned Border Wall Construction Would Disturb Native American Remains. They Were Right.

By Ryan Devereaux, ProPublica · November 2, 2026

Lorraine Eiler stood in the blazing August sun, surrounded by reporters, to offer a warning. The Trump administration was racing to erect a second border wall across Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, southwest of Tucson. If the bulldozers came, she said, they were bound to disturb the final resting places of her…