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Lawyers accuse Mexico of breaking law in sending cartel members to US without extradition order
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Vanesa Guzman Sanchez, the partner of Juan Pedro Saldívar Farías, who was detained and sent by Mexican authorities to the US without formal extradition proceedings, gives a press conference in Mexico City, Monday, Jan. 26, 2026. - photo by AP Photo/Fernando Llano
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A group of lawyers and family members of important cartel figures accused Mexico's government on Monday of breaking the law by sending nearly a hundred Mexican citizens to the United States without an extradition order. It comes less than a week after the administration of Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum sent 37 detained cartel members to the U.S. in what observers have described as an offering by Mexican authorities to offset mounting threats by U.S. President Donald Trump to take military action against cartels. Since last February, Mexico has sent a total of 92 cartel members in three separate transfers to the U.S. requested by the Trump administration.