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MEXICO CITY — <\/span>A group of lawyers and family members of important cartel figures accused Mexico’s government on Tuesday of breaking the law by sending nearly a hundred Mexican citizens to the United States without an extradition order. <\/p>\n It comes less than a week after the administration of Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum sent 37 detained cartel members<\/a> to the U.S. in what observers have described as an offering by Mexican authorities to offset mounting threats by U.S. President Donald Trump to take military action against cartels. <\/p>\n Since last February, Mexico has sent a total of 92 cartel members<\/a> in three separate transfers to the U.S. requested by the Trump administration. It’s part of a larger strategy by Sheinbaum<\/a> to crack down on cartels and maintain a positive relationship with the Trump. <\/p>\n The transfers have been at the center of a legal debate that has only gained more traction after last week’s hand over. Mexico\u2019s government has maintained the transfers were legal, carried out in the name of national security. The Trump administration said the capos were wanted for crimes in the U.S. and many of them had outstanding extradition requests by the U.S.<\/p>\n In a press conference on Tuesday, lawyers for the cartel members asserted they were denied due process because they were sent to the U.S. without an extradition order, which requires a lengthy legal process in Mexico.<\/p>\n \u201cMexico is currently under intense pressure from the United States,\u201d said Yarey S\u00e1nchez Lagunas, the lawyer of two people transferred to the U.S. in the last year. \u201cThis forces us to seriously question if these decisions are being used to show political results, even if it comes at the expense of due process or the rule of law.\u201d<\/p>\n