Mexican security chief confirms cartel family members entered US in a deal with Trump administration

[LiberalArkie]

May 13, 2025

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s security chief confirmed Tuesday that 17 family members of cartel leaders crossed into the U.S. last week as part of a deal between a son of the former head of the Sinaloa Cartel and the Trump administration.

Mexican Security Secretary Omar García Harfuch confirmed a report by independent journalist Luis Chaparro that family members of Ovidio Guzman Lopez, who was extradited to the United States in 2023, had entered the U.S.

Guzmán Lopez is one of the brothers left running a faction of the Sinaloa Cartel after notorious capo Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán was imprisoned in the U.S. Video showed the family members walking across the border from Tijuana with their suitcases to waiting U.S. agents.

Rumors had circulated last week that the younger Guzmán would plead guilty to avoid trial for several drug trafficking charges in the U.S. after being extradited in 2023.

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https://apnews.com/article/el-chapo-sinaloa-cartel-trump-border-harfuch-86572a31c88a216da7cd5f33006a0011

[jls4561]

1. It's Trump. What was in those suitcases?

[ret5hd]

2. mostly dollars. and some bootleg hair-loss drugs.

and shoe-lifts.

[LiberalArkie]

4. Cocaine for Don Jr?

[ret5hd]

6. that's coming in on Air Force Q.

[LiberalArkie]

7. Does it have a large enough cargo area.. I would think maybe a C-130?

[Lovie777]

3. Don't think President Sheinbaum didn't know about this..............

still awaiting on Mexico to pay for the wall.

[B.See]

5. Right. Send a group of immigrants

to El Salvador, 75% of whom committed no crimes, and import an entire drug cartel family.

Art of the deal.

[spanone]

8. How much did he charge them?

[doc03]

9. Trump deports people for a traffic violation

or an imaginary tattoo then imports members of a drug cartel.

[jls4561]

10. Follow up to my earlier post-Wonkette reports the suitcases contained $70K in cash.

It’s from a Mexican media report. Don’t know about reliability.

https://www.wonkette.com/p/trump-giving-golden-visas-to-el-chapos

[EndlessWire]

11. This needs more publicity.

I always thought he wanted to hook up with the drug cartels for a piece of their profit, because he doesn't really care about how many drugs pour in. And look, now he's making deals with a drug family? What's the point of this? He's as dirty as they come. I wanna know wtf is going on here.