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Mexico sends 37 cartel members to US in latest offer to Trump administration

Mexico's security minister says the country has sent 37 more cartel members to the United States

Courtesy: Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection

Mexico's security minister said Tuesday that it had sent another 37 members of Mexican drug cartels to the United States, as the Trump administration ratchets up pressure on governments to crack down on criminal networks it says are smuggling drugs across the border.

Courtesy: Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection

Mexican Security Minister Omar García Harfuch wrote in a social media post on X that the people transferred were “high impact criminals” that “represented a real threat to the country’s security.”

Courtesy: Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection

It is the third time in the past year that Mexico has sent detained cartel members to the U.S.

Courtesy: Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection

Harfuch said that the government has sent 92 people in total.

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