Overview
- Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin arrived in Mexico City for a two‑day visit and met President Claudia Sheinbaum and the security cabinet on Thursday to press for deeper operational cooperation.
- Sheinbaum agreed to pursue cooperation on drug seizures, intelligence sharing and cross‑border crime but said she would not discuss the New York indictments of 10 Mexican officials during their talks.
- Working sessions are set to focus on fentanyl trafficking, money laundering and arms smuggling as U.S. officials seek more direct operational links with Mexican law enforcement.
- Relations have been strained by the April deaths of two U.S. CIA agents in Mexico and by rare U.S. criminal actions that name current and former Mexican officials, two of whom voluntarily surrendered to U.S. authorities in mid‑May.
- Mexico has also pressed the U.S. over 15 migrant deaths in ICE custody and plans to take the cases to the Inter‑American Commission on Human Rights, a move that adds a human‑rights dimension to the security agenda.