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Tribal leaders seeking solutions to cartel crime, say they mostly got talk

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 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 […]