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America's 'last best place' is overrun by Mexican cartels because gangsters 'can charge 20 TIMES the price for drugs' - with overdoses 'SURGING' (Montana)
Daily Mail ^ | 2/10/24 | Martha Williams

Posted on 02/10/2024 2:54:16 PM PST by Libloather

Mexican drugs cartels have expanded all the way north and are targeting America's 'last best place' by preying on vulnerable Native American communities in Montana.

A recent report showed Montana to be the second most 'addicted' state with 18.2 percent of the state's population using illicit drugs in 2021 - a figure that has only been rising as time goes on.

Drug cartels from Mexico are drawn to the state of Montana because of how much money they can squeeze out of residents.

Fentanyl pills, for example, can be sold for 20 times the price in Montana than other areas - like urban centers closer to the border. The pills can be made for less than 25 cents in Mexico and sell for $3 to $5 in urban cities, but could rake in up to $100 in parts of Montana.

The drug problem has specifically plagued Montana's Indian reservations - where traffickers trap Native Americans in a cycle of addiction and debt.

Cartels have pushed aggressively into the notoriously beautiful state - even forming relationships with Indigenous women to gain access to communities and getting locals hooked on drugs.

Tribal leaders say that crimes and overdoses are surging in their communities, and the cartels 'know who to choose,' according to Stephanie Iron Shooter, the American Indian health director for the Montana Department of Health and Human Services.

'Just like any other prey-predator situation - that's how it is.'

Indian reservations are optimal targets for drug organizations because they have high drug addiction rates and low numbers of law enforcement.

Montana's opioid overdose death rate almost tripled between 2017 and 2020 and the rate of overdose deaths among Native Americans was twice the number of white residents, according to the state Department of Health and Human Services.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; Local News
KEYWORDS: bidenlegacy; border; cartels; crime; drugs; mexico; montana; openborders
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Could be the illegals Brandon flew all over the country.
1 posted on 02/10/2024 2:54:16 PM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Time to go Singapore on these people.


2 posted on 02/10/2024 2:55:53 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Libloather

Montana only has about 600,00p0 people, so flooding it with illegals could make drastic negative changes.


3 posted on 02/10/2024 2:56:01 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Libloather

“...by preying on vulnerable Native American communities...”

Annndddd why are they “vulnerable”?


4 posted on 02/10/2024 2:58:36 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: dfwgator

Go Saudi or Malaysia.


5 posted on 02/10/2024 3:00:09 PM PST by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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To: Libloather
Montana:

Officials: Mexican drug cartel targets Native American reservations with fentanyl

6 posted on 02/10/2024 3:01:10 PM PST by Oorang (Politicians:-a feeble band of lowly reptiles who shun the light and who lurk in their own dens. )
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To: Libloather

How about we just start ‘disappearing’ them?


7 posted on 02/10/2024 3:02:36 PM PST by dljordan
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To: dljordan

Most citizens would support it. The government would hate it. That disconnect is a major problem for the health of the country.


8 posted on 02/10/2024 3:04:58 PM PST by Dutch Boy (The only thing worse than having something taken from you is to have it returned broken. )
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To: Libloather

If the RAT turd rollers keep it up, Americans will be buying their ammunition from the Messican cartels too. Those SOBs will be able to buy the United States.


9 posted on 02/10/2024 3:06:01 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer ( Joe Pedo's America! The Motel 6 to the world. Joe's Border Patrol will keep the light on for you.)
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Need to get some competition in there, bring the price down. Maybe some of the recent Chinese Military type of invaders 0’Biden has brought in can get the Fentanyl direct from the Chinese labs, bring it in through the northern border so transportation costs are lower and make it much more affordable.

Or take ALL the dealers to “The Train Station” and cut off the supply completely, that would be my solution.


10 posted on 02/10/2024 3:06:31 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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To: dljordan

Lot of SSS space, there and wolves, coyotes and bears.


11 posted on 02/10/2024 3:07:10 PM PST by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Nancy Reagan was right all along.


12 posted on 02/10/2024 3:08:47 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Eagles6

I am all about preserving our precious wildlife. They need regualr feeding and what could be better than a little taste of South of the Border?


13 posted on 02/10/2024 3:10:24 PM PST by jimbug
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To: Bonemaker

Back in the olden days a tribesman would go out to an isolated place and starve himself till he got his hallucination, a “vision”. From this he got his name, sacred animal totem and other religious items for his “medicine bag.”
Then they found the White Man had all the visions they needed stored in bottles. For a few skins they could have all the visions they wanted.

Now they must be finding their visions in a pill from China.


14 posted on 02/10/2024 3:14:17 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: dfwgator

At the very least.


15 posted on 02/10/2024 3:19:53 PM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: jimbug

Exactly. How eco conscious of you!😉😆


16 posted on 02/10/2024 3:23:48 PM PST by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: Libloather

Blinken demands that the murderous cartels and their “social justice” underlings, be regarded for their humanity, and be treated accordingly by

The Rules According to Blinken.

You can reason with the cartels, with the many NGO’s that directly or vicariously support the cartels, the invasion, the wastelands, the destruction, the deaths, the butchery, the rapes and abortions.

All the usual NGO and liberal -supported debauchery.

Now known as “the humanity” at the U.S. State Department and The Ivy League.


17 posted on 02/10/2024 3:30:56 PM PST by linMcHlp
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To: dfwgator

Assuming Trump gets in, he needs to declare an invasion on day 1 and deal with it.


18 posted on 02/10/2024 3:32:51 PM PST by fretzer
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

They should stick with peyote, tiswin, and mescal and stay away from white mans’ rotgut.😀


19 posted on 02/10/2024 3:36:12 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: dfwgator

For sure.


20 posted on 02/10/2024 3:39:17 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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