Mexico sent 26 alleged cartel figures to face justice in the United States because the Trump administration requested them and Mexico did not want them to continue running their illicit businesses from Mexican prisons,

Despite many arguing the border crisis is over because illegal entries at the southwest border have dropped to their lowest level in recorded history, border-related and cartel crime is flourishing throughout the U.

The Trump administration secures the extradition of 26 Mexican cartel figures, including a Los Cuinis leader and a suspect in 2008 U.S. deputy murder case.

Mexico is sending 26 high-ranking cartel figures to the United States in the latest major deal with the Trump administration

Cartel leader Damaso Lopez Serrano, better known as "El Mini Lic," reportedly hired a hacker to track down YouTuber Camilo Ochoa, killed during the weekend in Mexico

Mexico has handed over more than two dozen high-ranking cartel leaders to the United States in a deal made with the Trump administration.

A car accident, a series of secret wiretaps, a shootout with police and a drug bust eventually led federal investigators back to cartel leaders in Mexico.

It came amid rising pressure from President Donald Trump on Mexico to dismantle the country's powerful drug organizations.

Mexico's security chief Omar García Harfuch and US Attorney General Pam Bondi announced the deal in separate statements.

Ernesto Barajas was gunned down in the city of Zapopan, police said. Another man died in the attack and a woman was injured.