Under the IGRA a state must compact with a tribe to operate all forms of class III gaming if it allows one form of class III gaming within its boundaries . Indian tribes are capable of acquiring trust land for gaming purposes in states with which they have no connection. IGRA needs to be amended to give governors veto power over decisions about taking off-reservation land into trust for Indian gaming purposes . Tribal gaming drains resources and tax dollars from surrounding non-Indian governments and communities. Better economic development alernatives to gaming are available to tribes.
All Indian tribes are now rich.
Tribal gaming is an unregulated magnet for organized crime. Large-scale tribal gaming predated IGRA by about 10 years. The Supreme Court found that California's gambling laws are civil regulatory, and thus could not be enforced against tribal gaming on a reservation. IGRA, in fact, limits and constrains the tribal rights recognized in Cabazon. Indian tribes are governments.