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Two men convicted of smuggling Indian family who froze to death at Canada-US border

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Harshkumar Patel and Steve Shand were convicted on four counts related to human smuggling. They were part of an international operation that led to the deaths of a family of Indian migrants who froze while trying to cross the Canada-US border. The men were involved in a scheme to bring Jagdish Patel, his wife and 2 children into the US during a 2022 blizzard.

  1. US
    Andrew Luger
    US Attorney's Office
    1. Because of this unimaginable greed, a father, a mother and two children froze to death in sub-zero temperatures on the Minnesota-Canadian border.
    2. To earn a few thousand dollars, these traffickers put men, women and children in extraordinary peril leading to the horrific and tragic deaths of an entire family.
    3. This trial exposed the unthinkable cruelty of human smuggling and of those criminal organisations that value profit and greed over humanity.

sources

  1. 1.The Guardian
  2. 2.CTV News
  3. 3.South China Morning Post

perspectives

  1. 1.Immigration to the US
  2. 2.Disasters
  3. 3.Canada under Justin Trudeau
  4. 4.Human Trafficking

countries

  1. 1.CanadaCA
  2. 2.IndiaIN
  3. 3.United StatesUS

organizations

  1. 1.Royal Canadian Mounted PoliceCA

persons

  1. 1.Harshkumar Patel
  2. 2.Vaishaliben Patel
  3. 3.Steve Shand
  4. 4.Andrew LugerUS
  5. 5.Elliot Spagat
  6. 6.Christopher Oliver
  7. 7.Daniel Huguley
  8. 8.Hassan Diab
  9. 9.Justin TrudeauCA
  10. 10.Thomas Leinenweber

technicals

  1. 1.Dirty Harry
  2. 2.Man of Steel