DOJ Indicts 14 Members Of ‘Extensive’ Migrant Smuggling Operation

The Justice Department announced that it has charged 14 members of an “extensive alien smuggling organization,” while eight other people were also arrested for smuggling hundreds of illegal migrants into the U.S.

A grand jury in Las Cruces, New Mexico, returned an indictment against 14 individuals for conspiracy to transport, harbor, and bring illegal aliens into the United States. According to a DOJ press release, eight of those charged were arrested.

“Today’s indictment alleges that the defendants engaged in a sophisticated conspiracy to smuggle aliens into and throughout the United States at great danger to the aliens, resulting in the death of one person,” said Supervisory Official Antoinette T. Bacon of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.

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