Two men found guilty in deaths of 53 migrants in Texas sentenced to life in prison | Texas
Two men face a federal judge to spend the rest of their lives in prison. prisoner For their role in their roles in their deaths in 2022, 53 people who were found dead in a tractor trailer in Texas in 2022.
A federal jury in Texas found Felipe Orduna-Torres and Armando Gonzales-Garcia, two guilty of various charges at the end of a hearing in March. The Federal Judge Orlando Garcia sentenced Torres to prison in prison and Ortega, in fact a lifetime imprisonment.
The judge also imposed a fine of $ 250,000 to each of the defendants.
The other five men were found guilty of their roles in the smuggling operation and is planned to be sentenced to later.
The truck hired 64 immigrants from Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador. The vehicle did not have a broken air conditioner and water, which meant suffocating conditions in the text of Texas.
Only 11 of those in the tractor truck survived an ordeal that migrants were willing to cross the US border to escape violence or financial turmoil in their countries.
The immigrants paid between 12,000 and 15,000 dollars, each to be taken to smugglers on the US border. indictment of the case. They were placed in the vehicle in Lareredo, a town on the border, and then went to San Antonio, a three -hour driving distance.
As the temperatures in the truck rose, the people inside screamed and hit the walls. Many of them finally passed. When the truck was found on June 27, 2022, more than one dozen was taken to the hospital where he died.
According to the prosecutors, men knew that the air conditioner in the truck was broken. And when they opened the back of the truck at the end of the three -hour journey, they discovered that dozens of people were dead.
“They learned that these two smugglers and assistant conspirators would spend the rest of their lives locked in a federal prison after leaving dozens of men, women and children locked in a complete tractor trailer to die in Texas summer heat.
Prosecutors said that Orduna-Torres was the leader of a group of men who kidnapped people from Mexico and South America between December 2021 and June 2022. He and Gonzales-Garcia hid the ways, tools, means to çökmek bring costs together, minimize risks and maximize profits ”.
Migrant smuggling has become an industry of billions of dollars, which often coordinated with the most violent cartel of Mexico. Donald Trump’s second presidency has started in January since the number of immigrants caught at the border has fallen. reports He said that people have still been kidnapped to the United States through even more dangerous methods and roads.
