Good weather, easy to live with minimal “housing”,
Welfare brings income up to real “poverty line” (existential sustenance).
Cheap legal dope provides occupying entertainment.
Quite an acceptable life for many.
Only problem is such a life contributes nothing to its own continuance, leaching off the abundance of the productive.
Wait until winter. The weather gets pretty cold and snowy. They will be gone.
Durango winter is hard
January is low teens to low 30s