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

MEXICO CITY AP Mexico s defense chief authenticated Tuesday that 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 Related Articles Feds ask Musk s car company how its driverless taxis will avoid causing accidents in Texas rollout What s in Trump s big bill Trillions in tax cuts changes to Medicaid and more People are going to die if Republican Medicaid cuts pass Healey warns Golden swords and Arabian horses Saudi Arabia s crown prince gives Trump a lavish royal welcome Family of US-born child deported to Honduras drops lawsuit against Trump administration Mexican Defense Secretary Omar Garc a Harfuch verified a review by independent journalist Luis Chaparro that family members of Ovidio Guzman Lopez who was extradited to the United States in had entered the U S Guzm n Lopez is one of the brothers left running a faction of the Sinaloa Cartel after notorious capo Joaqu n El Chapo Guzm n was imprisoned in the U S Video revealed the family members walking across the edge from Tijuana with their suitcases to waiting U S agents Rumors had circulated last week that the younger Guzm n would plead guilty to avoid trial for several drug trafficking charges in the U S after being extradited in Garc a Harfuch established the family members journeying in a radio interview and explained it was clear to Mexican bureaucrats that they were doing so after negotiations between Guzm n L pez and the U S establishment He inferred that was the episode because the former cartel boss whose lawyer noted in January he had entered negotiations with U S bureaucrats had been pointing fingers at members of other criminal organizations likely as part of a cooperation agreement It is evident that his family is going to the U S because of a negotiation or an offer that the Department of Justice is giving him Garcia Harfuch disclosed He disclosed that none of the family members were being pursued by Mexican executives and that the executive of U S President Donald Trump has to share information with Mexican prosecutors something it has not yet done The confirmation by Garc a Harfuch comes the same day that the U S Attorney General s Office broadcasted it was charging a number of top cartel leaders with narcoterrorism for the first time since the Trump administration declared a number of cartels as foreign terrorist organizations While prosecutors declined to comment on the video of the family U S Attorney Adam Gordon for the Southern District of California and other administrators sent a warning to cartel members repeatedly citing the Sinaloa Cartel by name Let me be direct to the leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel you are no longer the hunters you are the hunted You will be betrayed by your friends you will be hounded by your enemies and you will ultimately find yourself and your face here in a courtroom in the Southern District of California Gordon mentioned