US EditionSmugglers to be sentenced in 53 migrant deaths from 2022 human smuggling tragedy in Texas
- Two men convicted in March for their roles in the 2022 Texas migrant smuggling tragedy will be sentenced Friday in San Antonio.
- The sentencing follows the deaths of 53 migrants from Mexico and Central America trapped inside a sweltering tractor-trailer on Quintana Road.
- Investigators said the victims screamed and clawed for help as temperatures rose, and the smuggling operation had been running since at least 2020.
- Prosecutors described the defendants as leaders of a smuggling network, with migrants paying up to $15,000 each, and stated they knew the trailer's air conditioning was broken.
- The sentencing of these two men, who face life imprisonment, marks the first of several in a case that highlights the deadliest U.S. migrant smuggling attempt to date.
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Three years after the death of 53 migrants in an overheated truck in the U.S. state of Texas, two tugs were sentenced to life imprisonment and 83 years in prison. The two men had already been convicted in March by a jury of judges of the transport of foreign nationals in the U.S. with the death consequence, the serious assault and the endangerment of the lives of others. The sentence was now announced to the day exactly three years after the dea…
Two leaders of a human smuggling ring have been sentenced to life in prison by a Texas court in the United States for causing the deaths of 53 migrants. It was in June 2022 that 64 migrants were found in an abandoned and overheated truck on a back street on the outskirts of the city of San Antonio. 48 of them were dead and another five later died in hospital. Migrants...
San Antonio (USA), 27 Jun (EFE).- Two men were sentenced on Friday to spend the rest of their lives in a federal prison for an incident of migrant smuggling that left 53 undocumented people dead and 11 injured, found in an abandoned trailer in San Antonio (Texas) today three years ago, reported U.S. Department of Justice Felipe Orduña Torres, also known as ‘Cholo’, ‘Chuequito’ or ‘Black’, 30 years old, was sentenced to life imprisonment and paid…
Felipe Orduna-Torres, considered the leader and organizer of the network, and Armando Gonzales-Ortega, involved in the coordination, were sentenced in March for three crimes of aid to illegal residence.
Two smugglers convicted of federal charges in connection with the deaths of 53 migrants found in the back of a sweltering truck in Texas in 2022 will spend the rest of their lives in prison after being…
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