Below is an excerpt written by Stephen Dinan for the Washington Times:
A Mexican drug cartel used death threats to force a tribal leader to back out of testifying to Congress this week, according to another tribal leader who did show up to tell lawmakers just how much power the drug lords have accumulated.
Jeffrey Stiffarm, president of the Fort Belknap Indian Community in Montana, said he didn’t want to name the fellow leader who backed out, but he said the threat seemed real and credible.
“One thing that we really seem to overlook all the time is the threats, the death threats we get from cartel leaders,” he told the House Natural Resources Committee. “We had the tribal leader from Montana, that declined to testify here today because he received death threats that he was going to testify.”
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“We’re fighting a losing battle and the cartels are winning. The drug dealers are winning. They’re overrunning our reservations,” Stiffarm warned during a hearing before the House Committee on Natural Resources Wednesday about cartel operations on reservations.
Other potential witnesses had also declined to testify, over concerns about their safety, the report states.
Rep. Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) asked during the hearing, “The cartels have threatened them with death?”
“That’s horrible to think that an American citizen has been threatened by a foreign cartel if they come to Congress and testify about what they’re doing,” Westerman added.
The committee shared a video of the exchange and wrote, “Cartels have taken advantage of @POTUS‘s failure to secure the border, causing drugs and crime to run rampant on our tribal lands. Now these cartels are openly threatening tribal members if they attempt to blow the whistle – take a look at this shocking witness testimony.”
WATCH:
Cartels have taken advantage of @POTUS‘s failure to secure the border, causing drugs and crime to run rampant on our tribal lands. Now these cartels are openly threatening tribal members if they attempt to blow the whistle – take a look at this shocking witness testimony pic.twitter.com/qWlArL9EKH
— House Committee on Natural Resources (@NatResources) April 10, 2024
We’re holding a Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing examining the impacts of international cartels targeting Indian country.
Tune in here https://t.co/m7eW32MuvM pic.twitter.com/w3caBDbVKm
— House Committee on Natural Resources (@NatResources) April 10, 2024
Death threat: Mexican cartel forced witness to cancel congressional testimony https://t.co/9FFyNCyXvw
— The Washington Times (@WashTimes) April 11, 2024
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