US Transfers 13 Drug Traffickers Serving Prison Time Back to Mexico

"Socalj" for Borderland Beat 

The U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of International Affairs with the assistance of the Department’s Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) transferred 13 Mexican nationals, serving prison sentences for drug distribution-related convictions in the United States, to their home country on Friday.

The names of those prisoners transferred back to Mexico hadn’t been made public yet but we will be updating as soon as possible. 

The inmates requested to be transferred to their home country, and the governments of both the United States and Mexico approved these transfers.

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US Attorney General Issues Memo on 'Total Elimination of Cartels & TCOs'

 "Socalj" for Borderland Beat

Yesterday morning, Pam Bondi was sworn in as the new Attorney General. Two weeks since President Trump issued the Executive Order to designate cartels and other transnational criminal groups as terrorists.

That day was after the 14 day time period in which federal agencies would make their recommendations for what groups and people fall under the criteria to be designated. Bondi then issued a DOJ memo outlining the plans and methods for eliminating these cartels and criminal groups.

However it falls short of specifically designating any groups mentioned as Transnational Criminal Organizations as terrorist groups. It does however outline the enforcement benefits with groups and individuals that the NSD (National Security Division) designates as terrorists.

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