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Lujan Grisham Affirms Support for Standing Rock Sioux

Statement

Date: Feb. 22, 2017
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Oil and Gas Indigenous Peoples Environment

Congresswoman Michelle Lujan Grisham released the following statement about the Trump Administration's aggressive efforts to push through the Dakota Access Pipeline against the concerns of the Standing Rock Sioux:

"The Trump Administration is determined to steamroll the Standing Rock Sioux and its concerns about the environmental consequences of this oil pipeline. I am alarmed by this hostile position the federal government is taking with a sovereign Native American tribe. I am more concerned than ever that the Trump Administration will put corporate profits ahead Native American tribes, including those in New Mexico. I stand with our New Mexico Pueblo leaders in solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux, and I will continue to press the Department of Justice to investigate the aggressive and unwarranted tactics used against peaceful protesters."


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