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On the recordJuly 22, 2014
The suffering of the people who live in the san Lucy District and the economic harm the destruction did to the nation as a whole are well documented.
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Raúl Grijalva
Democratic · Arizona

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Grijalva discusses the impact of land destruction on the Tohono O'odham nation.

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