Senator Schumer denounces the “welcome carpet” for El Chapo’s parents in San Diego

Mexico – The Democratic leader of the Senate, Chuck Schumer, denounced Thursday as a “total shame”, the apparent decision of the Trump administration to authorize 17 parents of the most notorious drug trafficker in Mexico – “El Chapo” Guzmán – to enter the United States.

“Donald Trump and the Republicans love to speak hard at how they are hard in terms of border security,” said Schumer on the Senate soil. “So you can imagine our surprise to read that President Trump concludes agreements with drug cartels … to enter our country.”

The 17 relatives of El Chapo – Co -founder of Sinaloa Cartel, one of the six Mexican criminal unions that the Trump administration appointed as foreign terrorist organizations – crossed on foot from Tijuana to San Diego last week as part of an apparent overview of Ovido Guzman and representatives of one of the imprisoned sounds of El Chapo, Ovidio Guzman López. The son faces federal accusations of drug trafficking in Chicago.

“Donald Trump has no problem expelling American citizens, but he will grant a parole for the family of drug traffickers,” said Schumer.

The transfer of El Chapo’s relatives to San Diego was reported for the first time in the Mexican media, then confirmed by the Mexican security chief, Omar García Harfuch, who said that the Mexican government had not been informed in advance. On Wednesday, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum complained that the American authorities had not informed their Mexican counterparts of the operation.

El Chapo purges a perpetuity imprisonment in a so-called supermax prison in Colorado after his conviction in 2019 in the Federal Court of Brooklyn on the drug trafficking and other accusations.

Among the parents of El Chapo authorized to enter San Diego via the passage of San Ysidro de Tijuana, according to the accounts of the Mexican media, there was his ex-wife, a girl, a son-in-law, a grandson and several nephews and nieces. The American agents met them on the side of San Diego and took them, reported Mexican journalists.

The United States Ministry of Justice refused to comment.

Since his entry into office, Trump has highlighted his desire to repress both illegal immigration and drug trafficking in Mexico.

“Republicans should be in arms,” ​​said Schumer, New York. “If you are linked to El Chapo, Donald Trump says,” Come well. Welcome to America. It will unroll the red carpet.

The authorities did not disclose the place where the 17 Parents of El Chapo are located. It is not clear if they are in police custody or receive other advantages from the United States government.

In Mexico, according to security experts, El Chapo relatives could be in danger due to the bloody faction conflict that currently rages among the rival factions of the Sinaloa cartel.