Mexican drug cartels are targeting America’s ‘last best place’

Nightly News with Lester Holt, NBC News digital (2024)

Lured by enormous profit margins, Mexican cartel associates have flooded Montana with fentanyl and meth – in some cases, setting up operations on Native American reservations, where law enforcement is scarce.

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Correspondent: Cynthia McFadden

Photos: Aaron Agosto and Erin Trieb for NBC News

Art: Chelsea Stahl