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Mexico’s security chief confirmed Tuesday that 17 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.

Mexican Security Secretary Omar García Harfuch confirmed a report by independent journalist Luis Chaparro that family members of Ovidio Guzman Lopez, who was extradited to the United States in 2023, had entered the U.S.

Guzmán Lopez is one of the brothers left running a faction of the Sinaloa Cartel after notorious capo Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán was imprisoned in the U.S. Video showed the family members walking across the border from Tijuana with their suitcases to waiting U.S. agents.

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[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 89 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

I have a few questions:

  • Why?
  • How long will they be here?
  • How big was the bribe?
[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 44 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

They probably paid 5 million for Trump gold card so guess they can stay forever.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Do they get the dinner at the White House? Will it be Taco Bell or Chipotle?

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago

No cold McDonald's.

[–] doug@lemmy.today 16 points 9 hours ago

“How long will they be here.” lol

They’ll see themselves out, they’re just here for a trip to Disneyland.

[–] HejMedDig@feddit.dk 12 points 8 hours ago

Rumors had circulated last week that the younger Guzmán would plead guilty to avoid trial for several drug trafficking charges in the U.S. after being extradited in 2023.

He believed that was the case because the former cartel boss, whose lawyer said in January he had entered negotiations with U.S. authorities, 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 said.

So it looks like they are trying to exit the game

[–] KMAMURI@lemmy.world 1 points 10 minutes ago

It wasn't a bribe. It was a gift!

[–] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 44 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

So the "right" immigrants are the ones that can afford to pay a bribe?

So are all the immigrants that are getting deported illegally are only deported because they could not afford the fee? Seem as if being a criminal has nothing to do with deportation or immigration as the White House made it out to be.

[–] angrystego@lemmy.world 23 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

You're almost there. Having no money makes you a criminal.

[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 9 points 5 hours ago

Having no money makes you a criminal, and being a criminal makes you a slave. That's what it's about, a handful of elitists who want the largest collection of slaves in history.

[–] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 5 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

But having money makes you not related to one of the worst cartels of all time, even when you are.

Magical stuff, that money is. Apparently they weren’t sending their best because their best didnt have the $5M

[–] Aux@feddit.uk -1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Poverty should be a crime.

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

That's what they are doing. They are making poverty a crime.

The crime should be against enabling poverty to exist.

[–] Aux@feddit.uk -5 points 4 hours ago

The only ones enabling poverty are the poor.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 29 points 10 hours ago (5 children)

I just.......don't want to exist anymore. I don't want any humans to exist anymore. This experiment has run it's coarse. Time to blow up the sun, and end existence.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 58 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

It's such an American reaction to want to end all existence across an entire solar system because an American president is corrupt.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 20 points 9 hours ago

No reason to kill everybody on the planet, but we should start with about 15 whose end would improve the planet.

[–] zzx@lemmy.world 10 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] toofpic@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago

Well fuck me for not living in the US, right?

[–] doug@lemmy.today 4 points 9 hours ago

I was really hoping that asteroid was our reset button.

[–] Flemmy@lemm.ee 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Enjoy the Ragnarök rabbit hole.

[–] MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 24 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Reasons:

  1. Trump Tower Sinaloa

  2. Free cocaine for Jr

  3. Reclassified as Afrikaners

  4. Massive Trumpcoin investment

[–] Uli@sopuli.xyz 23 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

As a non-believer, I just need to say, Jesus fucking Christ.

I mean, why not, right? Why not invite the families of cartels into this country? It's a pretty good topper after accepting a 400 million dollar bribe from one of the countries most associated with terrorism. From the start of his campaign in 2016, he's calling Mexican immigrants murderers and rapists as a point of assumption. Accuses Haitian immigrants of eating pets on a national debate stage just because he heard it somewhere. Won't shut up about immigrants who are apparently crazy like Hannibal Lecter simply because he had a word association salad while half-ignoring people talking about "asylum seekers" and having core memories of seeing the "insane asylum" in Silence of the Lambs. Sends rogue gangs of secret police after any immigrants they can get their hands on, vanishing such "illegals" out of the country without due process to confirm whether or not they were in fact "illegal" to begin with - and refuses to even try to recover those who were illegally renditioned, even when ordered to do so by the highest court in the land. While the supposed identification of knuckle tattoos translating to "MS13" (primarily by means of having the same number of digits) was im fact dubious symbology, the Commander in Chief repeatedly insists the "translation" type photoshopped onto the photo actually part of the tattoos, even when repeatedly corrected. Furthermore, he constantly touts this idea that all of the people he is exporting to this El Salvadoran gulag are gang-related criminals, or at minimum part of cartel families, despite never having a shred of evidence to prove this. And while this supposed economy expert who destroyed the economy with tariffs he didn't understand fails on the world stage, showing he has zero aptitude for making deals in any context, he does actually agree to one deal: with an actual Mexican cartel. You know, those criminals he's always talking about? And part of the deal is that they're going to send members of their families to live here. You know, those gang-associated immigrants he's always telling you to worry about? That we need to get out of our country? If you pay him enough, he'll let them right on in no matter who they are. Just line his pockets on your way through the door. Someone please, I want to hear that I've eaten the onion. This cannot be reality, it just can't.

[–] sunflowercowboy@feddit.org 10 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

The megaprison gets mexicans out of the country and out of Mexico.

Cartel organizations had been classified as a terrorist sect recently. Combined with this, methinks he's plotting the same thing as Israel funding Hamas and then creating a crisis for which to occupy or invade.

Why would anyone genuinely believe the thought of them attacking Canada? Mexico has had their aggression for years and suddenly the buddy buddy neighbor is the target? It's clear smoke.

Mexico as an identity separates a lot of the social structure and erasing it would be easier to amalgamate into the USA. Hence the gulf renaming.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago

Or simply just making the US more of a Mafia State like Russia.

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 22 points 10 hours ago
[–] Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world 21 points 9 hours ago

Hahahahaha!

This is so NOT surprising. And his ridiculous cult will be like deer caught in headlights followed by proud and confident denial, or some weird form of justification. This place is such a joke.

[–] sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world 16 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] AcidicBasicGlitch@lemm.ee 8 points 9 hours ago

My thoughts exactly.

[–] conicalscientist@lemmy.world 9 points 1 hour ago

Criminals looking out for criminals. The Trumps are a crime family.

[–] peteyestee@feddit.org 6 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

This is nothing compared to America's dark side.

The naivety of citizens is why we are where we are, regardless of left or right. It's all the same game. We are products manipulated to make their world.

Genuine honest humanity vs evil. No political sides. They use all of us... And market us to be the ones hurt for their goals left or right.

[–] UrPartnerInCrime@sh.itjust.works 6 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Saw there was a video mentioned but wasn't linked. Had to go to TikTok to eventually find said video cause none of the news articles had it

That being said, I can't 100% confirm this is the right video, but its the best it could find. Reuploaded to a diffrent website so Noone is forced to go to TikTok

Said video

[–] KMAMURI@lemmy.world 2 points 11 minutes ago

Stocking up on the dregs of society. His people come home to him.