Mexico sent 37 accused criminals to the United States to stand trial, part of an uptick in such transfers in recent months as the country tries to meet Trump’s demands that the country do more to combat drug cartels. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum had already acted to put in place more aggressive policies toward criminal groups before Trump was elected to office, and in early February she also deployed 10,000 members of Mexico’s national guard to northern provinces to patrol the border with the United States. But as James Bosworth wrote in WPR in March 2025, a long-term solution to Mexico’s organized crime problem is not always as simple as instituting more aggressive policing. “Combating one kind of criminal activity, such as drug production and trafficking, often provokes changes in the behavior of criminal groups, as they seek to engage in other kinds of crimes that can be just as socially and economically disruptive,” Bosworth wrote. “This has created immense challenges in the past, as authorities are forced to combat criminal groups on different fronts, while new, smaller groups tend to be more violent than large, centralized criminal enterprises.”Read more:

Source: The North Africa Journal January 22, 2026 09:05 UTC