DEA agent in , to the United States as the Trump administration turns up the pressure on drug trafficking organizations. Those sent to the U. Thursday were brought from prisons across Mexico to board planes at an airport north of Mexico City that took them to eight U.
Among them were members of five of the six Mexican organized crime groups designated earlier this month by U. According to prosecutors in both countries, the prisoners sent to the U. Thursday faced charges related to drug trafficking and in some cases homicide among other crimes. Attorney General Pamela Bondi said in a statement.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio. In exchange for delaying tariffs, Trump had insisted that Mexico crack down on cartels, illegal immigration and fentanyl production, despite significant dips in migration and overdoses over the past year. Caro Quintero had walked free in after 28 years in prison when a court overturned his year sentence for the kidnapping and killing of U.
The brutal murder marked a low point in U. Caro Quintero, the former leader of the Guadalajara cartel, had since returned to drug trafficking and unleashed bloody turf battles in the northern Mexico border state of Sonora until he was arrested by Mexican forces in In January, a nonprofit group representing the Camarena family sent a letter to the White House urging the Trump administration to renew longstanding U. The acting head of the U. Caro Quintero, for whose arrest the U.
That means it could potentially allow prosecutors in the U. The U. The brothers have been accused by American authorities of running the successor Northeast Cartel from prison. Mexican security analyst David Saucedo said that since negotiations with the Trump administration began, he had expected the U.
