WASHINGTON — Mexico is expelling 26 high-ranking cartel figures to the United States in the latest major deal with the Trump administration as American authorities ratchet up pressure on criminal networks sending drugs across the border, a person familiar with the matter told the Associated Press on Tuesday.

The cartel leaders and other prominent figures were being flown from Mexico to the U.S. on Tuesday, the person said. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the ongoing operation.

Those being handed over to U.S. custody include Abigael González Valencia, a leader of Los Cuinis, a group closely aligned with the notorious cartel Jalisco New Generation, or CJNG. Another person, Roberto Salazar, is accused of participating in the 2008 killing of

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