Mexico expels 26 alleged cartel members in latest deal with US

The extradition statement comes arsenic Mexico continues to cooperate with the Trump medication contempt its tariff threats.

Mexico has expelled 26 alleged high-ranking cartel members to the United States, successful its latest woody with the medication of President Donald Trump.

The transportation was confirmed by a associated connection from the Mexican lawyer general’s bureau and its information ministry connected Tuesday.

The connection said that the US Justice Department had sought the extradition and that it had fixed guarantees that the decease punishment would not beryllium levied against immoderate of those prosecuted.

The transportation comes arsenic the Trump medication continues to exert unit connected Mexico to instrumentality much enactment against transgression gangs progressive successful cause smuggling and quality trafficking.

Part of that unit run has travel successful the signifier of tariffs, with definite Mexican exports to the US present taxed astatine a higher rate.

Trump has described the import taxation arsenic indispensable to clasp Mexico “accountable” for the “extraordinary menace posed by amerciable aliens and drugs”.

In response, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has struck a cautious equilibrium erstwhile dealing with Trump, cooperating connected immoderate information issues, portion drafting wide lines erstwhile it comes to her country’s sovereignty. That has included vehemently opposing immoderate US subject involution connected Mexican soil.

Still, US media reported past week that Trump has secretly signed an order directing the subject to instrumentality enactment against drug-smuggling cartels and different transgression groups from Latin America, which could presage the deployment of US forces some domestically and abroad.

The determination connected Tuesday was the 2nd clip successful caller months that Mexico has expelled alleged transgression pack members wanted by the US.

In February, Mexico extradited 29 alleged cartel figures, including Rafael Caro Quintero, who is accused of sidesplitting a US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) cause successful 1985.

That woody came arsenic Trump threatened to enforce broad 25-percent tariffs connected Mexican imports, but the scope of that tariff menace was aboriginal pared down.

Currently, the US imposes a 25-percent tariff connected Mexican-made cars and products not covered nether a pre-existing escaped commercialized accord, the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). Mexico besides faces a 50-percent taxation connected its steel, aluminium and copper products.

But astatine the extremity of July, Trump agreed to extend a tariff exemption for goods that autumn nether the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement for 90 days.

The Associated Press quality bureau reported that Abigael González Valencia, the person of “Los Cuinis”, a drug-trafficking radical intimately aligned with the notorious Cartel Jalisco New Generation (CJNG), was among those expelled to the US successful the latest deal.

The Trump medication took the unorthodox determination of designating the CJNG and 7 different Latin American transgression groups arsenic “foreign violent organisations” upon taking office.

Valencia is the brother-in-law of CJNG person Nemesio Ruben “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes, who is considered 1 of the astir wanted radical successful Mexico and the US.

Valencia was arrested successful February 2015 successful Mexico and had since been warring extradition to the US.

Another individual, Roberto Salazar, stands accused of participating successful the 2008 sidesplitting of a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy, a root told the quality agency.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies