The unprecedented show of security cooperation comes as top Mexican officials are in Washington trying to head off the Trump administration's threat of imposing 25% tariffs on all Mexican imports.

A drug cartel kingpin, known as the US Drug Enforcement Administration’s top target for his role in the killing of a DEA agent, was moved from Mexico to New York City on Thursday and is expected to face a judge on Friday,

Mexico will extradite to the United States drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, convicted of murdering a U.S. anti-narcotics agent in 1985, and more than two dozen other suspected cartel members, sources told Reuters on Thursday.

The unprecedented show of security cooperation comes as top Mexican officials are trying to head off the Trump administration’s threat of imposing 25% tariffs on all Mexican imports.

The extradition comes as top Mexican officials are in Washington trying to head off the Trump administration's threat of imposing 25% tariffs on all Mexican imports starting Tuesday.

Mexico has extradited drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, who was behind the killing of a U.S. DEA agent in 1985, to the United States with 28 prisoners requested by the U.S. government

MEXICO CITY – Mexico extradited 29 alleged drug traffickers to the US on Thursday amid mounting pressure from the Trump administration to crack down on fentanyl smuggling or face tariffs. The 29 inmates were being held in various prisons across the country and include Rafael Caro Quintero,

Along with Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, 28 others were sent to the United States as the Trump administration turns up the pressure on drug trafficking organisations.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, behind 1985 killing of DEA agent, extradited to US.