Two alleged regional leaders of the Sinaloa drug cartel on the Chihuahua-Texas border were among 37 high-level organized crime suspects transferred by Mexico to the United States this week.
Mexico's secretary of security, Omar Garcia Harfuch, in a post on X stated that the transferred prisoners were "individuals who represented a real threat to the country's security."
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Mexican federal security forces removed the detainees from prisons and transported them into U.S. custody in an operation in cooperation with the U.S. government on Tuesday, Jan. 20, Garcia Harfuch stated.
The prisoners were flown aboard seven Mexican military aircraft to Washington D.C., Houston, San Antonio, San Diego, New York and the state of Pennsylvania.
