U.S. Transfers 14 Mexican Nationals with Drug or Firearm Convictions to Mexico

On December 9, 2025, the United States Department of Justice’s (DOJ) announced that the Office of International Affairs (OIA), with help from the DOJ’s Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), transferred fourteen Mexican nationals on December 5 to Mexican authorities pursuant to the International Prisoner Transfer Treaty between the U.S. and Mexico. Each person was serving a federal sentence in the U.S. for drug-distribution offenses, illegal firearms offenses, or both.