Someone threw open the flood-gates. And by that I mean every former slave on Pittsburgh has just washed over the land like a deluge of undesirability. A vast majority of them are the kind DSE has shipped in from across the borders, foreigners who work for rates so cheap and conditions so poor that they might as well be commodities when compared to their local alternatives. Foreign influence is a strict no-no. So I have no problem with the mail-order folks going 'missing' after convenient round-ups by unscrupulous nationalists.
It would solidify a permanent arrangement. Bodies for your product. The LPI's less than principled lackeys are easy enough to bribe, and we have our own networks to work with. Essentially, a lot of friends in low places. In aggregate it works quite well. Call it the chain-agreement. Drugs come in, foreign filth rolls out. Win-win for both our conflicting agendas. Maybe all these rumors of me being a snake are true!