Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“A jury in San Antonio, Texas, recently returned a guilty verdict against two men — Armando Gonzales-Ortega and Felipe Orduna-Torres — for the role they played in the deaths of 53 illegal immigrants — 47 adults and 6 children. The victims died while being transported in the back of a tractor trailer where temperatures reached 150 degrees. The defendants are scheduled to be sentenced on June 27 and will most likely receive a very high prison sentence. … it wasn’t only Gonzales-Ortega and Orduna-Torres and other smugglers who bear moral responsibility for the deaths of those 53 people. So do U.S. officials who continue to support and enforce America’s decades-old immigration-control system — a system by which the federal government centrally plans the movements of people across international borders and criminalizes the unauthorized entry into the United States by foreigners.” (03/27/25)
https://www.fff.org/2025/03/27/u-s-officials-are-morally-responsible-for-human-trafficking-deaths/