News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Boss gets lesser term 23 years for smuggler who let 19 illegal immigrants die

The Associated Press

Published: 09.12.2006

HOUSTON - A man convicted of participating in the nation's deadliest human-smuggling attempt was sentenced Monday to more than 23 years in prison.

Victor Sanchez Rodriguez was convicted in February on 18 counts of smuggling. The case stems from the 2003 deaths of 19 illegal immigrants who were crammed into an airtight tractor-trailer found abandoned in Victoria, about 100 miles southwest of Houston.

During the trials, survivors testified that they screamed and clawed at the sweltering trailer's walls.

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