By Ward Clark – |5:45 PM on August 12, 2025 – RedState

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This is a big deal, and may be the start of bigger, better deals to come. No, I’m not talking about tariffs or trade deals. In this deal, brokered between the Mexican government and the Trump administration, Mexico has agreed to expel 26 notorious cartel figures wanted in the United States. They will be handed over to American authorities to face the music.

These are some very bad people.

Mexico has expelled 26 high-ranking cartel figures to the United States in the latest major deal with the Trump administration as American authorities ratchet up pressure on criminal networks sending drugs across the border, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

The cartel leaders and other prominent figures were being flown from Mexico to the U.S. on Tuesday, the person said. They spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the operation that was still ongoing.

Those being handed over to U.S. custody include Abigael González Valencia, a leader of “Los Cuinis,” a group closely aligned with notorious cartel Jalisco New Generation or CJNG. Another person, Roberto Salazar, is accused of participating in the 2008 killing of a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy, the person said.

This isn’t the first such handoff of goblins, which leads us to the presumption that there will be more.