Congresswoman asks about Navajo prostitution in New Mexico

Council Delegate Daniel Tso told Congresswoman Deb Haaland that the fracking industry in New Mexico is soliciting Navajo women for sex.  (story)  Congresswoman Deb Haaland brought this issue up at a meeting in Santa Fe where she was met with silence.  Congresswoman Haaland is leading the cause for missing and murdered Indigenous women.  The New Mexico oil and gas association is striking back at the congresswomen accusing her of raising an issue without any evidence.  It is their way of trying to silence her.  However, assuming that Delegate Tso is telling facts, it would be very difficult to disclose who said what because of the nature of the crime.  I don't think the Navajo women who were solicited would come forth and say anything.  If anything, the third parties who saw the solicitations would have to be the witnesses.  Even more, the oil and gas industry is a very powerful industry.  Most people are afraid of them that they do not want to talk against them, just like the mafia of the previous century, or the cartels of Mexico.  The oil and gas industry is huge and they are connected to, and in many cases, are the same as, the American politicians.  Most of the American politicians are heavily lobbied by the  natural resources industries.  We saw this during the DAPL protests, we've seen it time and time again with other natural resources industries like coal and uranium. It would be good if Council Delegate Tso and the witnesses come forward and substantiate their claims.  This issue needs to be addressed.  I'm glad that Congresswoman Haaland is raising this issue because many of our Native sisters are going missing.  They need to be protected.  If it's our own Navajo women who are engaging in prostitution, then this also need to be addressed since they perpetuate the missing Native women crisis.