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Tribal leaders seeking solutions to cartel crime, say they mostly got talk
Thursday, April 11, 2024
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WASHINGTON — Lawmakers wanted to talk about the problems of foreign criminal cartels operating on Indigenous lands, but tribal leaders came to the House Natural Resources subcommittee hearing last Wednesday seeking solutions.
Instead, they said, they left the hearing afraid it was just another “check-a-box-off” exercise.
“Something that wasn’t really talked about is where do we go from here?” said Tohono O’odham Chairman Verlon Jose. “I heard, ‘Yes I want to go to your reservations,’ ‘Yes, I learned something.’ But there was no real strong commitment on where do we go from here. That’s what I want to hear.”
Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Bullhead City, who chaired the hearing, acknowledged that solutions may not have been forthcoming Wednesday. But he said it was important to start the discussion and he hopes it was the first step in a longer process between Congress and the tribes.
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Note: This story originally appeared on Cronkite News. It is published via a Creative Commons license. Cronkite News is produced by the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.
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