4 sentenced in ‘first ever’ case for fatal Guatemalan human smuggling

Miche
Trafficking News
Published in
3 min readNov 3, 2023

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Scene amid August 2022 raids / Photo: Guatemala National Civil Police

The first people ever to be extradited from Guatemala to the United States to face charges of human smuggling resulting in death were hit with double-digit prison sentences in the Western District of Texas.

According to federal documents, the family of an indigenous Guatemalan woman from Quiche paid approximately $10,000 to have her smuggled to…

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