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On to a Fox News alert. Mexico has extradited 26 high-ranking cartel members, including

top leaders from the Sinaloa, Jalisco, and Noreste cartels to the U.S. That also includes

one suspect who is accused of participating in the 2008 killing of a Los Angeles County

Sheriff's deputy. Attorney General Pam Bondi writing, quote, these 26 men have all played

a role in bringing violence and drugs to American shores. Under this Department of Justice,

they will face severe consequences for their crimes against this country.

From what I'm reading, these 26 individuals, cartel members or leaders, I believe that

the U.S. promised to seek the death penalty in order as part of the deal to get them here.

What's Mexico's, what is their incentive to send those folks here?

Well, if you remember when the Trump administration designated the cartels as a foreign terrorist

organization, obviously the Mexican government got incredibly nervous about that because

that gives incredible power to the U.S. government to pursue the cartels. So the Mexican

government is now cooperating with the U.S. government because it does not want U.S. forces

going into Mexico to take care of the cartels, which have been a direct threat and have been

terrorizing Americans and which this administration is clearly not going to tolerate it.

So what I find encouraging about this is the collaboration now between the U.S. government

and the Mexican government so that, you know, the Mexican government doesn't get any more

of the direct kind of ire and attention from the Trump administration.

Yeah, a major win for the Trump administration because the last place these 26 cartel leaders

would want to be is in U.S. custody. And our relationship with Mexico is unique when it

comes to trade and also immigration. The timing of all this, what do you think about that and

why this is happening right now?

Well, of course, President Trump is also threatening increased tariffs against Mexico. But really,

you know, they Mexico still wants to be considered an ally of the United States.

And in that in that press release that the Trump administration released designating the

cartels as a foreign terrorist organization, it developed in there in that release the

connection between the Mexican government, the cartels saying the Mexican government

cannot tolerate the cartels.

It certainly cannot enable and be enriched by them.

And there's been a U.S. concern increasingly that the Mexican government's not cracking

down on the cartels and in fact is becoming enriched by them.

So it's the combination, I think, of the U.S.

government threatening increased tariffs and also taking a more adversarial look rather

than a look of an ally and a trade partner.