Two men were convicted of the death of 53 immigrants in Texas who will spend the rest of their lives in prison Texas
Two men face spending the rest of their lives in prison after a federal judge Heal On Friday, they have their roles on the death of 53 people-including six children-who were found dead in an abandoned tractor trailer in Texas in 2022.
The Federal jury in Texas found the two men, Felipe Ordona Torres and Armando Gonzalez Garcia, guilty of various charges at the conclusion of the trial in March. Federal Judge Orlando Garcia has sentenced Torres to life imprisonment and Ortega to 83 years in prison, a life sentence.
The judge also imposed a fine of $ 250,000 on each of the defendants.
Five other men also admitted that they are guilty of their role in the smuggling process and are scheduled to be sentenced to them at a later time.
The truck was carrying 64 immigrants from Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador. The car had a broken air conditioner or water, which reached the stifling conditions in the summer of Texas.
Only 11 survived those who were in the tractor of the tractor from an ordeal that showed the risks that migrants are ready to cross to cross the American border in order to escape violence or financial turmoil in their countries.
The smuggled immigrants paid between $ 12,000 to $ 15,000 each on the American border, according to what he said The indictment of the case. They were placed in the car in Larado, a town on the border, then they headed to San Antonio, which is three hours by car.
When the temperatures rose inside the truck, people shouted inside and merged on the walls. Many died in the end. When the truck was found on June 27, 2022, more than ten of them were taken to the hospital, where five others died.
Men knew that air conditioning in the truck was broken, according to public prosecutors. And they discovered dozens of people inside, who died when they opened the back of the truck at the end of the three -hour trip.
A statement from the American lawyer for the western region of Texas said: “Three years until the next day after these two smugglers and their conspirators, they left dozens of men, women and children detained in a tractor tractor that is vibrant to die in the summer Texas heat, and they knew that they would spend the rest of their lives in a federal prison,” a statement from the American lawyer for the western region of Texas said.
Prosecutors said that Orduna-Torres was the leader of a group of men who smuggled people from Mexico and South America between December 2021 and June 2022.
The smuggling of migrants has become billions of dollars, often operated in coordination with some of the most violent cartals in Mexico. While the number of migrants who have been arrested on the border has decreased since Donald Trump’s second presidency began in January, Reports Did people say they are still fleeing to the United States through the most dangerous methods and methods.