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US jails Guatemalan man for 30 years over deadly smuggling operation

First reported 2026-10-21 01:01 UTC · Updated 2026-10-21 03:06 UTC · 2 independent sources

A U.S. federal judge on Tuesday sentenced a Guatemalan man extradited to the U.S. over his role in a 2022 human smuggling attempt that ended in the deaths of 53 migrants who had been transported in a sweltering tractor-trailer in Texas.

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  1. 2026-10-21 01:01 UTCAl Jazeera · aljazeera.com ↗
  2. 2026-10-21 03:06 UTCCBC · cbc.ca ↗

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