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Mexico has transferred another 37 alleged members of drug cartels to the United States, the country’s security minister said on Tuesday, amid rising pressure from the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump to curb cross-border drug trafficking. Mexican Security Minister Omar García Harfuch said in a post on X that those handed over were “high impact criminals” who “represented a real threat to the country’s security.” The latest move marks the third such transfer in less than a year. García Harfuch said Mexico has now sent a total of 92 detainees to the United States as it seeks to respond to mounting threats from Washington. Footage released by Mexican authorities showed handcuffed prisoners guarded by heavily armed, masked officers as they were boarded onto a military aircraft at an airport near Mexico City. “As the pressure increases, as demands from the White House dial up, (Mexico’s government) needs to resort to extraordinary measures, such as these transfers,” said David Mora, a Mexico analyst at the International Crisis Group. Read More: Mexico plans to build Latin America’s most powerful supercomputer The U.S. State Department and Justice Department did not immediately comment. Those transferred include figures from the Sinaloa Cartel, Beltrán-Leyva cartel, Jalisco New Generation Cartel, the Northeast Cartel and a Zetas splinter group based in Tamaulipas. Mexican officials said all face pending U.S. cases. Among them was María Del Rosario Navarro Sánchez, the first Mexican charged in the U.S. with supporting a terrorist organization. Trump has floated military action against cartels and recently said, “We’ve knocked out 97% of the drugs coming in by water and we are going to start now hitting land.”