Posted on 02/01/2024 9:51:51 AM PST by george76
Republican South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem ... Mexican drug cartels have set up shop on tribal reservations in her state because they know the federal government has jurisdiction over those lands, and that the Biden administration is "letting it happen."
"Even though South Dakota isn't a neighboring state to Texas, we're on the front lines of this thing," Noem said .. "I've got nine Native American tribes, and the cartels are set up on our tribal grounds. They are facilitating this drug trafficking, this human trafficking through my tribal grounds here in South Dakota because I don't have jurisdiction there.
"The Department of Justice and the federal government have jurisdiction on our reservations. I don't as a state, so [the cartels are] using these areas of federal lands as havens for their criminal activity. Every single state literally is a border state because we've got these cartels throughout the country in protected areas, and Joe Biden is letting it happen."
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knowingly violating federal law and helping and facilitating this invasion."
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"What's sad to me is the Border Patrol agents, they don't want to do what this president is doing," Noem said. "They're good people who have been in these positions for many, many years. They've lived in these communities, and they hate what they're seeing as the destruction to their town, their city, their community, and their country.
"I don't know of anybody that supports the policies except for him and his White House affiliates. You look at those who work within ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement], those who work within Border Patrol, and even many of these Democrat mayors don't like dealing with the consequences of this illegal invasion that we've got going on."
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Substance abuse by Native Americans on tribal land? Say it ain’t so!
Your biggest mistake Governor is calling them Mexican Drug Cartels, THEY AREN’T. We OWN the Cartels, We created the Cartels, They work for us and they are wholly owned subsidiaries of the CIA
What do American Indians know about the cultural and social effects of unlimited immigration?< /s>
It certainly is not about substance abuse. Natives started that long before cartels were even in the news. Firewater from the European settlers didn’t help their cause.
A group headquartered in Rapid City seeking big money from “concerned citizens” is riding herd on Native issues with funding from around the world. I would suggest anyone interested in such issues keep up on the who, what, why, and wherefore, of NDN Collective.
I have read in the past, about hikers unwittingly stumbling upon secret marijuana grow operations by cartels and others, often to bad outcomes. They evidently sometimes guard these illegal operations with armed sentries and booby traps and woe to those who end up in the wrong place at the wrong time. Federal or federal jurisdiction; semi-autonomous tribal lands.
Ah, another source of funds for the ruling tribal families. Might be more lucive than casinos - if it does work out, expect other tribes to allow the cartels to set up similar shops.
Eventually, the cartels will find a way to have a state allow them to operate legally in the open, and then the cartels will spread across the US like they have in Mexico.
Well said, Karl. no/s
I always wondered if the Lakota would welcome the Aztecs.
The movie ‘American Honey’ has the Copperhead Road song in it.
Earle’s song tells the tale of narrator John Lee Pettimore III’s family history of moonshine making in East Tennessee and serving in the U.S. Army before returning home to grow marijuana, “up the holler down Copperhead Road.”
Cartels Infiltrating Protected Tribal Lands
An Indian acquaintance in NM described the cartel practice of marrying into the tribe in order to use the res land as a drug trafficking conduit to the US.
Oregon, California.
It is prevelent in AZ. The indian gangs have been affiliating with the New Mexican Mafia for many years
“What’s sad to me is the Border Patrol agents, they don’t want to do what this president is doing”
I’m not sure I believe that anymore. I think a lot of them are all for it.
Noem needs to use the National Guard to destroy the cartels. Take a page from Abbott. Time to protect your state with state resources.
Mexican drug cartels moved here because there more buyers here then in Mexico it’s what keeps them in business.
Back in the day, the tribes had some charming ways of dealing with those who offended them.
Perhaps it is time for an object lesson to be made.
Where is Hector?
I believe Governor Noem is incapable of making the kind of decisions that go against the status quo. An example would be protecting young women against biological men taking over women’s sports. Another would be taking on big medical and protecting children from the gender insanity. The really big one is the potential for late term abortion to be enshrined in the State Constitution.
I have more. The battle to deny private companies the ability to come into the State and use eminent domain to steal land from farmers for a high pressure CO2 pipeline to transport same to a sequestration facility. There is more.
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