Homeland security officials watching for response by cartel's U.S.-based networks after leader killed
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Homeland security officials are watching for a response from Jalisco New Generation Cartel's U.S.-based trafficking and financial networks after Mexican security forces killed Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes in a raid Sunday. In:
Homeland security officials are watching for a response from Jalisco New Generation Cartel's U.S.-based trafficking and financial networks after Mexican security forces killed Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes in a raid Sunday.
The cartel, also known as CJNG, maintains distribution, logistics and money-movement infrastructure across the United States. While officials say there is no indication of an imminent threat to the U.S. as a result of the operation that killed Cervantes, law enforcement agencies are monitoring any potential increases in violence, coercion or debt-collection activity inside domestic trafficking corridors.
Mexican authorities in recent months have also transferred dozens of cartel suspects into U.S. custody in several batches, part of a broader bilateral enforcement surge that has placed CJNG and other groups under sustained pressure.
According to a source briefed on the operation, the raid was the culmination of intensified U.S.-Mexico counter-cartel cooperation under Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum. Intelligence sharing has markedly expanded in recent months through newly emphasized joint interagency channels tied to U.S. Northern Command.
A defense official told CBS News on Sunday a counter-cartel task force the Pentagon established under U.S. Northern Command in January "played a role in that the Joint Interagency Task Force regularly works with the Mexican military," but the official emphasized that this was a Mexican military operation, "so the success is theirs."

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