Justice Department officials announced on Tuesday that they took 26 fugitives from Mexico into custody.
The more than two dozen foreigners are suspected of “drug-trafficking, hostage-taking, kidnapping, illegal use of firearms, human smuggling, money laundering, the murder of a sheriffs’ deputy, and other crimes,” according to a release from the Justice Department.
The group also includes leaders of dangerous drug cartels designated by the U.S. government as foreign terrorist organizations, such as the Sinaloa Cartel and the Cartel del Noreste.
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President Donald Trump issued an executive order earlier this year extending the foreign terrorist designation to those cartels and other crime syndicates in Latin America.
Several DEA high-level targets among the 26 fugitives returned to the U.S. from Mexico, including leaders of cartels designated
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