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Kristi Noem says cartels are setting up crime operations on tribal land where only feds have U.S. jurisdiction

February 1, 2024 | | Print Article

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, a Republican, claims Mexican drug cartels are operating on tribal reservations in her state.

Appearing on Newsmax this Wednesday, she explained that the federal government has jurisdiction over the tribal lands, but that the Biden administration is purposefully doing nothing about the cartels operating there.

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“Even though South Dakota isn’t a neighboring state to Texas, we’re on the front lines of this thing,” she said. “I’ve got nine Native American tribes, and the cartels are set up on our tribal grounds. They are facilitating this drug trafficking, this human trafficking through my tribal grounds here in South Dakota because I don’t have jurisdiction there.”

“The Department of Justice and the federal government have jurisdiction on our reservations. I don’t as a state, so [the cartels are] using these areas of federal lands as havens for their criminal activity. Every single state literally is a border state because we’ve got these cartels throughout the country in protected areas, and Joe Biden is letting it happen,” she added.

While on Newsmax, Noem also talked about her recent tour of the U.S. southern border and the Biden administration’s widely panned war against Texas.

As previously reported, Texas has installed razor wire to prevent illegal alien migrants from crossing into the state, but the Biden administration is so hellbent on removing the razor wire that it sued the state.

“Talking to the Texas National Guard when I was down there, they said the reason that the federal government took them to court was because the razor wire they were putting up was actually working,” Noem revealed.

“They had put it up on top of shipping containers on a panel in a different method that actually kept off even the able-bodied military-aged men to climb and cross over it. You could see everywhere they had installed this new way of putting this barrier in place. It worked, and that’s when the federal government decided to take them to court and sue them to have to take it down,” she added.

“That’s what’s incredible to me. We have a president that’s not just ignoring federal law, he’s knowingly violating federal law and helping and facilitating this invasion,” she continued.

Noem also revealed the not-surprising bombshell that Border Patrol agents don’t care for how President Joe Biden is “managing” the southern border invasion.

“What’s sad to me is the Border Patrol agents, they don’t want to do what this president is doing,” she said. “They’re good people who have been in these positions for many, many years. They’ve lived in these communities, and they hate what they’re seeing as the destruction to their town, their city, their community, and their country.”

“I don’t know of anybody that supports the president’s policies except for him and his White House affiliates. You look at those who work within ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement], those who work within Border Patrol, and even many of these Democrat mayors don’t like dealing with the consequences of this illegal invasion that we’ve got going on,” she added.

Noem’s comments on Newsmax come just days after she vowed on Fox News to personally load up a pickup truck with razor wire and deliver it to Texas to spite the Biden administration.

“Governor Abbott has done the exact right thing,” Noem said. I’ll drive him more razor wire from South Dakota if I have to for him to do his job.”

She also defended Texas Gov. Greg Abbott from the left’s attacks.

“What people forget is that governors are commanders-in-chief,” she said. “We’re responsible for the men and women of our National Guard. It’s a heavy responsibility that weighs on our shoulders, and so we never engage our National Guard soldiers and those men and women unless it’s incredibly important.”

And like on Wednesday, she reiterated just how much Border Patrol agents don’t care for the Biden administration’s open borders agenda.

“Our Border Patrol agents do not support what President Biden is doing,” she said. “Our ICE people on the ground do not support what President Biden is doing. Democrats in this country do not support what President Biden is doing at the southern border. They disagree with him fundamentally.”

“[Biden] is so out of touch. He is remaking this country. We will be Europe within a year or two if we allow President Biden to continue this invasion of our country,” she added.

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