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THREAD: Deep within Arizona’s Sonoran Desert and less than 100 yards from the international border, Quitobaquito Springs has been part of the Native O’odham People’s ancestral lands and a sacred ceremonial site for thousands of years. 🌿 
It is also the only U.S. home of the endangered Sonoyta mud turtle and the Quitobaquito pup fish.
⚠️Today, Quitobaquito Springs is at risk of being destroyed. ⚠️
⚠️Today, Quitobaquito Springs is at risk of being destroyed. ⚠️
“The land is being ripped open to start building this border wall,” says @seukteomaaa, a member of the Tohono O’odham Nation who has spent years resisting border wall construction on Indigenous homelands. “Plants are being ripped from the ground. Animals are being endangered.”
