A federal judge in Texas sentenced a human trafficker from Guatemala to 30 years in prison for his role in setting up a deadly 2022 human smuggling attempt that killed 53 migrants who were stuffed in a hot trailer in South Texas. Law enforcement officials arranged his extradition to the United States so he could face the charges.
\n\nThis week, 39-year-old Ramon Miranda Orozco went before a U.S. federal judge who sentenced him to 30 years in prison on human smuggling conspiracy charges resulting in deaths. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Miranda pleaded guilty on July 2 and had been in U.S. federal custody since his extradition from Guatemala in March.
\n\nBreitbart Texas reported on the incident, which took place in June 2022, when a group of cartel-connected human smugglers stuffed dozens of migrants into a trailer and had it driven from Laredo to San Antonio. Due to South Texas’ extreme weather during the summer, the temperatures inside the trailer quickly climbed, and the migrants began to suffocate. Photographs released by federal prosecutors revealed scratch marks on the truck’s wall made by the migrants as they tried to get some air inside the hot truck.
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Original source: https://breitbart.com/
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