The vice president of a local tribe is asking the New Mexico Attorney General and the state Legislature to intervene against online gambling apps that he says are using a backdoor to allow illegal sports gambling here and, in doing so, threatening tribal gaming rights.
Mescalero Apache Reservation Vice President Duane Duffy told a panel of state lawmakers this week that platforms like Kalshi allow customers to do online sports betting under the guise of commodity futures trading. The companies are “wiggling” their way into New Mexico, a state where online sports betting is illegal, he said.
“That is a threat to the gaming market here in the state, and a clear violation of the state tribal gaming compacts,” Duffy told members of the interim Economic & Rural Development & Policy Committee.
