Associated Press: Mexican security chief confirms cartel family members entered US in a deal with Trump administration

[Josie]

As I mentioned up thread, based on the facts of the article, the Trump administration is allowing the families of cartel members in the US because they may suffer persecution in their home country. Do you really not see the hypocrisy?

Sounds to me like they’re being brought here because they’re going to turn on the family member(s) who are part of the drug cartel. They aren’t criminals themselves.

 

[Felis Leo]

Sounds to me like they’re being brought here because they’re going to turn on the family member(s) who are part of the drug cartel. They aren’t criminals themselves.

And do you agree with that reasoning, Josie? If so, on what basis should they be in the United States? Ahead of Afghan translators or Haitian refugees, that is?

 

[multivita-man]

From the Associated Press:

Mexican security chief confirms cartel family members entered US in a deal with Trump administration

Mexico’s government has confirmed reports that 17 family members of the son of a former cartel leader crossed into the United States.

apnews.com

Okay, so now after all the ginned-up Republican uproar over the crisis at the border, the dangers presented by the drug, gun and human traffickers of Mexican Cartels, the violations of due process of citizens and immigrants in the United States, the suspension of status for Afghan and Haitian refugees, and ignoring orders of the Supreme Court...after all that, the Trump Administration is now apparently specifically importing the families of Sinaloa cartel members into the United States.

If this is confirmed to be true, this is insane. I mean, what, did the Sinaloa Cartel promise to allow the Trump Organization to build a new resort on Cartel territory in exchange for the boss's wife and kids being allowed to come to the United States?

Well I think they were treated very unfairly. They, you know, I mean I know what it's like to be treated unfairly and to be the subject of a witch hunt.

 

[Felis Leo]

Well I think they were treated very unfairly. They, you know, I mean I know what it's like to be treated unfairly and to be the subject of a witch hunt.

 

[Pyrite]

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/world/americas/mexico-cartel-chapo-family.html

...The Sinaloa Cartel, co-founded by Joaquín Guzmán Loera, known as El Chapo, is one of the most powerful criminal groups in the world, although it has been divided by violence between rival factions as several of its leaders face prison and prosecution in the United States....


Oh, yeah, we want "family members" (17 of El Chapo’s relatives — including his ex-wife, various nephews and nieces, a grandson, a daughter and a son-in-law) of the Sinaloa Cartel to be living here.

Why does trump think this is a good idea?

Why does MAGA think this is a good idea?

 

[noonereal]

From the Associated Press:

Mexican security chief confirms cartel family members entered US in a deal with Trump administration

Mexico’s government has confirmed reports that 17 family members of the son of a former cartel leader crossed into the United States.

apnews.com

Okay, so now after all the ginned-up Republican uproar over the crisis at the border, the dangers presented by the drug, gun and human traffickers of Mexican Cartels, the violations of due process of citizens and immigrants in the United States, the suspension of status for Afghan and Haitian refugees, and ignoring orders of the Supreme Court...after all that, the Trump Administration is now apparently specifically importing the families of Sinaloa cartel members into the United States.

If this is confirmed to be true, this is insane. I mean, what, did the Sinaloa Cartel promise to allow the Trump Organization to build a new resort on Cartel territory in exchange for the boss's wife and kids being allowed to come to the United States?

This source is AP it is a legit source.

 

[Jessie C]

From the Associated Press:

Mexican security chief confirms cartel family members entered US in a deal with Trump administration

Mexico’s government has confirmed reports that 17 family members of the son of a former cartel leader crossed into the United States.

apnews.com

Okay, so now after all the ginned-up Republican uproar over the crisis at the border, the dangers presented by the drug, gun and human traffickers of Mexican Cartels, the violations of due process of citizens and immigrants in the United States, the suspension of status for Afghan and Haitian refugees, and ignoring orders of the Supreme Court...after all that, the Trump Administration is now apparently specifically importing the families of Sinaloa cartel members into the United States.

If this is confirmed to be true, this is insane. I mean, what, did the Sinaloa Cartel promise to allow the Trump Organization to build a new resort on Cartel territory in exchange for the boss's wife and kids being allowed to come to the United States?

I hope every single one of these cartel family members wreaks havoc on Mar a Lardo and every other property trumpdump owns. NO ONE more richly deserves it.

 

[Athanasius68]

Not like this. This instance is all trump's.

Remember, your boy so recently designated the Sinaloa Cartel as a "foreign terrorist group" that is waging war on the USA.

Yet here trump is, allowing family members into the USA....

Dotage?

Or a bribe trump couldn't turn down?

Or part of a plea deal...
That is the more reasonable explanation.

 

[Josie]

And do you agree with that reasoning, Josie? If so, on what basis should they be in the United States? Ahead of Afghan translators or Haitian refugees, that is?

If the family members are thoroughly vetted and pose no danger, why not? If it handicaps a huge drug cartel, that's a good thing, isn't it? Anyone with a valid asylum application should be allowed in.

 

[Athanasius68]

I hope every single one of these cartel family members wreaks havoc on Mar a Lardo and every other property trumpdump owns. NO ONE more richly deserves it.

Don't worry about it.
Trump is trying to clean up the damage caused by Bidens indifference to the border.

 

[noonereal]

Righties will find an answer for this, bet on it.

OnceFox tells them the spin.
Don't expect them to think of one on their own.

 

[Pyrite]

Or part of a plea deal...
That is the more reasonable explanation.

That really doesn't matter.

Here's the potentially-yuuuuuuuuuge problem: trump is BRINGING INTO the USA "family members" of the group the nytimes says is one of the most powerful criminal groups in the world.

 

[Pyrite]

If the family members are thoroughly vetted and pose no danger, why not? If it handicaps a huge drug cartel, that's a good thing, isn't it? Anyone with a valid asylum application should be allowed in.

No one has said the "family members" are "thoroughly vetted".

Nor has anyone said the "family members" "pose no danger".

They are part of one of the most powerful criminal groups in the world. Why on earth would we want these people in the USA?

 

[Athanasius68]

That really doesn't matter.

Here's the potentially-yuuuuuuuuuge problem: trump is BRINGING INTO the USA "family members" of the group the nytimes says is one of the most powerful criminal groups in the world.

Ok.
But then what are you folks here complaining about?
President Biden flew people into this county hither and yon..

We are supposed to take seriously the sudden progressive concern for 'brown" people crossing the border?

 

[Pyrite]

Ok.
But then what are you folks here complaining about?
President Biden flew people into this county hither and yon..

We are supposed to take seriously the sudden progressive concern for 'brown" people crossing the border?

This isn't about Biden.

Focus.

It's about trump, who is bringing into this country 17 "family members" of the Sinaloa Cartel, which the very same President trump has said is a foreign terrorist group that is waging war against guess who?

 

[lynnwinslow]

Ok.
But then what are you folks here complaining about?
President Biden flew people into this county hither and yon..

We are supposed to take seriously the sudden progressive concern for 'brown" people crossing the border?

Because, as I mentioned to you in another thread, President Biden never stood on a bully pulpit welcoming white refugees and disparaging brown ones.
It's the hypocrisy that galls.

 

[Athanasius68]

This isn't about Biden.

Focus.

It's about trump, who is bringing into this country 17 "family members" of the Sinaloa Cartel.

It's about the sudden concern of progressives of 'brown' people crossing the border.

 

[noonereal]

Ok.
But then what are you folks here complaining about?
President Biden flew people into this county hither and yon..

We are supposed to take seriously the sudden progressive concern for 'brown" people crossing the border?

One weird ass post.

 

[Athanasius68]

Because, as I mentioned to you in another thread, President Biden never stood on a bully pulpit welcoming white refugees and disparaging brown ones.
It's the hypocrisy that galls.

Ok. These family members are 'brown" people.
And it appears the administration is admitting them in the country.

So what's the problem?

 

[noonereal]

It's about the sudden concern of progressives of 'brown' people crossing the border.

No clue how ridiculous your posts here sound?

 

[Pyrite]

It's about the sudden concern of progressives of 'brown' people crossing the border.

No, it's not. And your attempt to change the subject isn't going to succeed.

It's about trump's bringing into this country 17 "family members" of the foreign terrorist group that he claims is attacking the USA.

 

[Athanasius68]

No, it's not. And your attempt to change the subject isn't going to succeed.

It's about trump's bringing into this country 17 "family members" of the foreign terrorist group that he claims is attacking the USA.

Not changing the subject.
We don't take seriously the sudden progressive concern for border security.

 

[Pyrite]

No clue how ridiculous your posts here sound?

@Athanasius68 is trying to deflect attention from trump's allowing into this country 17 "family members" of the trump-designated terrorist group that is waging war against....this country.

 

[Pyrite]

Here's a question for you who support trump's bringing into this country 17 "family members" of the Sinaloa Cartel:


How are these "family members" going to support themselves financially?

 

[SNOWFLAKE]

Because people bitching for the sake of bitching are....well, a lot of things.

Yet, once again, guess who is doing the bitching?