MEXICO CITY: Mexico mentioned Tuesday (Jan 20) it has handed 37 suspected members of organised crime gangs over to the USA, whose President Donald Trump has threatened floor assaults towards drug cartels there.
It was the third such handover in a couple of yr, bringing the whole to 92, the federal government mentioned. It didn’t state the suspected criminals’ nationalities.
The announcement got here simply over every week after President Claudia Sheinbaum discussed security with Trump and informed him a US troop deployment in Mexico was “not on the desk.”
Trump had mentioned land assaults towards cartels would observe current US maritime operations within the Pacific and Caribbean, with out specifying the place or when.
Sheinbaum has stepped up the extradition of cartel leaders and strengthened border cooperation, however has repeatedly voiced opposition to any army intervention.
She has pointed to a 50 per cent lower in fentanyl seizures on the US southern border, a 40 % drop in homicides in Mexico, and the seizure of lots of of tons of medication as proof of the success of her insurance policies.
