BURLINGAME, Calif.—South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem reiterated her claims that Mexican drug cartels are operating on tribal land outside of her jurisdiction in South Dakota.
“They have set up on my tribal reservations, and they are proliferating their drug trafficking, their human trafficking, they are raping our children and our women, right in South Dakota,” the Republican state executive said on May 18 at the California GOP’s 2024 Spring meeting, held at a Hyatt Regency not far from the San Francisco International Airport.
