Native Americans are being taken from reservations and brought to illegal rehab centers where they are being held or abandoned. The abductors are taking Native Americans off the reservations so they can charge AHCCCS (Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System) the state medicade program for the poor and uninsured. The Native Americans who are being tricked into this scam are being promised a warm place to sleep and fresh food but are instead being abducted and used to fraud AHCCCS. This issue has been happening for the past decade but has been increasing in the past couple of years at an alarming rate.
These abductors are profiting off of this scam by sending bills to ACHCCCS for health care the native americans have not received. The law is being amended in SB 1136 witch as of writing is in the State House of Representatives. Two other bills did not pass the state legislature this year.
Sources
1. https://www.npr.org/2021/03/12/976053675/human-trafficking-crisis-in-indian-country-like-a-pandemic
2. Police investigating Indigenous people getting 'recruited' to check into Phoenix rehab centers
3.https://www.abqjournal.com/1124091/navajo-nation-conference-centers-on-human-trafficking.html
4. https://ksltv.com/481933/navajo-nation-to-focus-on-human-trafficking-awareness/
5. Walter Murillo (Interview)