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US jails Guatemalan man 30 years over migrant smuggling deaths

Original: US jails Guatemalan man for 30 years over deadly smuggling operation https://www. aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/21/ us-jail

A Guatemalan man has been sentenced to 30 years in a US prison over a 2022 human smuggling operation in which 53 migrants died after being trapped inside a sweltering tractor-trailer in San Antonio, Texas. The case, one of the deadliest migrant smuggling incidents in US history, continues to draw attention to the dangers of irregular migration along the US-Mexico border.

Why now: The sentencing closes a major chapter in one of the deadliest smuggling tragedies in recent US history.

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