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Californians with deep ties to Jalisco rattled by cartel violence and fears of bloody power struggle

Two days after Mexican forces killed the leader of the Jalisco New Generation cartel last month, Gladdys Uribe was in her California home, anxiously tracking her parents’ movements in Mexico. The capture and death of the world’s most wanted drug trafficker — Nemesio Rubén “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes — triggered a violent retaliation that spread…

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More Mexicans were deported annually under Biden than by Trump

MEXICO CITY — The Trump administration has launched an unprecedented immigration enforcement operation across the U.S. to deport people there illegally, but data compiled by a Mexican investigative outlet show that deportations of Mexicans were lower last year than in each of the previous four years. Under the Biden administration, deportations of Mexicans per year reached nearly…

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Why Mexico’s president insists she’s not waging a “war on drugs”

MEXICO CITY — In the last year, Mexican troops have been deployed across the country to quell narco-violence, arresting legions of cartel operatives, seizing tons of illicit drugs and busting hundreds of clandestine laboratories. Skipping the usual extradition process, Mexico shipped scores of cartel suspects to the United States to face justice, an unprecedented step. And, in…

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