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In It to Win It

(12,418 posts)
Wed Jan 21, 2026, 01:03 AM 9 hrs ago

Mexico sends 37 cartel members to U.S. in latest offer to Trump administration

MEXICO CITY — 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.

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.”

It is the third time in less than one year that Mexico has sent detained cartel members to the U.S. as the country attempts to offset mounting threats by U.S. President Donald Trump. García Harfuch said the government has sent 92 people in total.

Video shared by Mexican authorities shows a line of handcuffed prisoners surrounded by heavily-armed and masked officers being loaded onto a military jet at an airport on the outskirts of Mexico City.

“As the pressure increases, as demands from the White House dial up, (Mexico’s government) needs to resort to extraordinary measures, such as these transfers,” said David Mora, a Mexico analyst at the International Crisis Group.

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/mexico/mexico-sends-37-cartel-members-us-latest-offer-trump-administration-rcna255092
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Mexico sends 37 cartel members to U.S. in latest offer to Trump administration (Original Post) In It to Win It 9 hrs ago OP
Maybe he will put them in charge of the DEA unblock 8 hrs ago #1
First he has to shake 'em down for drug profits in exchange for pardons AZJonnie 5 hrs ago #3
How do we know the charges are accurate ? Or does that really even matter ? eppur_se_muova 7 hrs ago #2

AZJonnie

(2,967 posts)
3. First he has to shake 'em down for drug profits in exchange for pardons
Wed Jan 21, 2026, 04:24 AM
5 hrs ago

Then he can put them in charge of stuff, since that'll mean they're totally innocent.

eppur_se_muova

(41,123 posts)
2. How do we know the charges are accurate ? Or does that really even matter ?
Wed Jan 21, 2026, 02:19 AM
7 hrs ago

As long as Trmp believes they're guilty -- or at least nonwhite, which is more or less the same thing to him -- they are legal tender in this market of appeasement.

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