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.
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I live in MT. There are no safe spaces in the USA anymore. Fentanyl is self-regulating because it kills so many users. Meth steals your soul. It has become a popular recreational drug in the white population. We did a good job of cutting off local production by controlling the supply of ingredients and that vacuum was filled by the cartels. What a mess! Closing the damned border is a necessary first step which is unlikely right now. Law enforcement is overwhelmed. The time for vigilante action is near.
There are no safe spaces in the USA anymore....
Very true.
Slightly off topic but I love how he politely shut up the liberal journalist on executions.
https://youtu.be/ZBiGpFMWRC4?si=l3IDgBD2j8eiswTR
I assume that this goes along with removing Native American images from sports teams, etc, and other places of public consciousness. Totalitarian progressives plan to simply wipe them out altogether so that Americans will not be reminded of the horrors all governments can commit.
They also have tribal elders who have been in on mteh production and drug and human trafficking.
The vote cheating on the Blackfoot reservation put Democrat John Tester in the Senate and gave us Obamacare.
We don’t get to vote in their elections, but they vote in ours.
Some sovereign nation.
Stop blaming the Mexican Drug Cartels, they work for us, we created them, we own them, we launder their money and get our cut, they are wholly owned subsidiaries of the CIA
1.1 million in Montana, 78,000 of them Indians (6.5%). 7 Indian reservations in Montana, all of them in terrible condition.
A big IF.
And assuming Trump gets in, the Left will immediately mobilize against him. All of the cities will have protests against his election.
I don't have all the answers.
Yup. And I think a little south of the border fertilizer would add some zest to the Montana soil.
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