More than 20 drug cartel suspects from Mexico – including the man who was killed in 1985, were detained after Mexican officials agreed to send it to the United States.
29 people accused of violence and drug trafficking were deported due to pressure from the Trump administration on curbing illegal immigration, cartel activities and fentanyl production, and promised a 25% tariff on all Mexican imports that will begin next week.
“It’s really a historical moment for those who have investigated multiple generations of Mexican cartels,” said Ray Donovan, former head of operations at the Drug Enforcement Bureau. “We have never seen many people sent from Mexico to the United States this day.”
Mexico is deported from the country by Rafael Caro Quintero.
Quintero has been included in the DEA for 40 years on the DEA’s list of most popular fugitives. “Today, we can proudly say that he has arrived in the righteous America that will be the forefront,” said Derek S. Maltz, Acting Chief Executive of the DEA.
The suspects sent to the United States include five members of six Mexican organized crime groups designated by the Trump administration as “foreign terrorist organizations” earlier this month.
According to the Mexican government, people sent to the United States on Thursday were taken from prisons across Mexico to airports north of Mexico City, which brought them to eight U.S. cities.
Deported were two leaders of the now lost Los Zetas Cartel, Mexican Miguel Treviño Morales and his brother Omar Treviño Morales, known as Z-40 and Z-42. U.S. authorities accused the brothers of running for the Northeast cartel from prison.
The removal of the Treviño Morales brothers marks the end of a long process that began with the captives of Miguel in 2013 and two years later by brother Omar. Mexico’s Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero described the delay as “really shameful.”
A Mexican cartel man
In addition to Caro Quintero, there are Cartel leaders, security chiefs from the Sinaloa Cartel’s two factions, Cartel Financial Agents and people associated with the 2022 North Carolina Sheriff’s Deputy Representative want.
Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, former leader of the Juarez drug cartel, is located in the border city of Juarez Ciudad Juarez, opposite El Paso, Texas, and brother of drug Lord Amado Carrillo Fuentes, known as the “King of the Sky”, who died in a corrupt plastic surgery in 1997, and we died in 1997.
Prisoners sent to the United States on Thursday to face charges related to drug trafficking, in some cases, homicides and other crimes, according to prosecutors from both countries.
“We will prosecute these criminals to the fullest extent of the law in honor of brave law enforcement officers’ dedication to their careers and, in some cases, for their lives, to protect innocent people from the scourge of violent cartels,” U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi said in a statement.
The deportation of Mexican Foreign Minister Juanmón dela Fuente and other top economic and military officials visiting Washington’s drug cartel figures coincided with Washington, where they met with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
In exchange for delays in tariffs, Trump insisted that Mexico has dropped dramatically over the past year, but Mexico has hit cartels, illegal immigration and fentanyl production.
Long-term DEA goals
Mexico’s surprise handover to one of the FBI’s top ten most wanted fugitives was in the weeks in the making.
Caro Quintero walked freely in 2013 after 28 years in prison, when the court sentenced to a 40-year prison sentence for the kidnapping and killing of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena in 1985. The brutal murder marks a low point in U.S.-Mexico relations.
Caro Quintero, former leader of the Guadalajara Cartel, has since returned to drug trafficking and released bloody turf battles in Sonora, the northern border of Mexico until it was arrested by Mexican troops in 2022.
The United States sought extradition to Caro Quintero shortly after its arrest in 2022. But the request remains haunted by the Mexican Foreign Ministry as the Mexican President and political mentor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the former and political mentor of President Claudia Sheinbaum, as the Mexican president and political mentor, severely cut Mixies’ actions to protest our actions to lower our actions in order to make our actions in Mexico to make our poorly-mobile businesses protest.
“This moment is very personal for the men and women in DEA,” said DEA’s acting head.
The cartel can respond
Mexican security analyst David Saucedo said he hoped the U.S. government would demand three things since the negotiations with the Trump administration began: drug seizures, arrests of high-profile drug trafficking suspects and exchanges for long-standing drug traffickers against the United States.
He called Thursday’s removal a “important concession” for the United States by the Mexican government.
Sasdo said the decision also threatened to subvert an unwritten understanding – with the notable exception – Mexican drug lord would serve his sentence in Mexican prisons, where they were often able to continue operating illegal businesses.
“Drug trafficking groups will certainly have an angry reaction to the Mexican country,” he said.
