The jury condemns two men in the smuggling operation that killed 53 migrants

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Two men involved in a smuggling operation were sentenced by federal charges on Tuesday in an attempted 2022 border crossroads that left 53 dead migrants After they were trapped in the back of a trailer of tractors not conditioned in the hot summer of Texas.

Felipe Orduna-Torres, 30, and Armando González-Ortega, 55, were convicted of several positions, including the conspiracy to transport undocumented immigrants that result in death. Both face life imprisonment when they are sentenced in June.

The 2022 disaster was one of the Most mortal smuggling attempts in the history of the United States. The migrants, who came from Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras, were charged between $ 12,000 and $ 15,000 to embark on the trip, which ended in San Antonio.

The prosecutors claimed that Orduna-Torres and González-Ortega charged 66 migrants in the truck and led San Antonio, Texas. The temperature during the three-hour trip was suffocating, prosecutors said in the trial, and migrants inside the tractor-river began scratching the walls trying to escape. Others lost consciousness.

When the doors of the tractor-clear in San Antonio opened, 48 migrants had died inside, said the Department of Justice, and another five died in the hospital. Six children and a pregnant woman were among the dead.

Five other men declared themselves guilty of charges that connect to the smuggling case, including the driver of the tractor-clear.