Mexican Security Minister Omar Garcia Harfuch said today that he has sent 37 more members of Mexican drug cartels to the United States.
He wrote in a post on the social network X that the transferred people are "high-profile criminals" who "pose a real threat to the country's security."
This is the third time in less than a year that Mexico has sent detained cartel members to the US, as the country tries to defuse growing threats from US President Donald Trump.
García Harfuch said the government sent a total of 92 people.
The US State Department and Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Today's transfer included members of the Sinaloa, Beltran-Leyva, Jalisco New Generation, and Northeast Cartel, a remnant of the notorious Zetas based in the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas, across from the U.S. state of Texas.
Mexican authorities said they all have pending cases in the US.
Trump has been mulling the idea of military action against Mexican cartels, and has sharpened his rhetoric since military operations in Venezuela and the arrest of former President Nicolas Maduro earlier this month.
Turning his attention to Mexico shortly after the intervention in Venezuela, Trump said in an interview with American television station Fox News that the US had cut off almost all drug transport into the country by water.
"We have destroyed 97 percent of the drugs that came by water and now we will start attacking the land, as far as the cartels are concerned," Trump said.
Last week, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum spoke with Trump, telling him that U.S. intervention in Mexico was "not necessary," but stressed that the two countries would continue to cooperate.
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