WINNING: Mexico Extradites Cartel Members To Face Justice In America
Under Biden, illegal aliens swarmed over the border from Mexico at the expense of American interests. Under Trump, criminals are being handed over from Mexico to advance those interests.
Pam Bondi’s DOJ made an announcement about the criminal cartels who have done so much harm to American interests. In this administration, the Mexican government has begun to cooperate in seeing criminal cartels pay a price for their crimes. It’s a small first step, but that step is in the right direction.
The Mexican government posted this picture:
From this press release are a few highlights:
Today, the United States secured custody of 29 defendants from Mexico who are facing charges in districts around the country relating to racketeering, drug-trafficking, murder, illegal use of firearms, money laundering, and other crimes. The defendants taken into U.S. custody today include leaders and managers of drug cartels recently designated as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists, such as the Sinaloa Cartel, Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG), Cártel del Noreste (formerly Los Zetas), La Nueva Familia Michoacana, and Cártel de Golfo (Gulf Cartel). These defendants are collectively alleged to have been responsible for the importation into the United States of massive quantities of poison, including cocaine, methamphetamine, fentanyl, and heroin, as well as associated acts of violence.
“As President Trump has made clear, cartels are terrorist groups, and this Department of Justice is devoted to destroying cartels and transnational gangs,” said Attorney General Pamela Bondi. “We will prosecute these criminals to the fullest extent of the law in honor of the brave law enforcement agents who have dedicated their careers — and in some cases, given their lives — to protect innocent people from the scourge of violent cartels. We will not rest until we secure justice for the American people.”
[…] Many of the defendants were subject to longstanding U.S. extradition requests that were not honored during the prior Administration, but that the Mexican government elected to transfer to the current U.S. government in response to the Justice Department’s efforts pursuant to President Trump’s directive in Executive Order 14157, entitled Designating Cartels and Other Organizations as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists, to pursue total elimination of these Cartels. Federal prosecutors will evaluate whether additional terrorism and violence charges are appropriate based on the policy set forth in Executive Order 14157, and whether capital punishment is available based on Executive Order 14164, entitled Restoring the Death Penalty and Protecting Public Safety, as well as the Attorney General’s Feb. 5 guidance regarding the death penalty.
Time and again, Biden prioritized illegal immigration over and above the interests of law-abiding Americans. His policies enriched, emboldened and even entrenched criminal gang activity in American cities. More effort was made to criminalize Americans with the ‘wrong’ political opinions than to make sure those same gang members did not rob, rape, or kill American citizens.
Under Trump, those priorities are reversed. Cartels have been rightly called ‘terrorists’, and protecting Americans from their criminality has become the priority.
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