HARLINGEN, Texas (Border Report) — A 21-year-old resident of Laredo has been sentenced to five years in prison for smuggling over 100 migrants across the border, including unaccompanied children, U.S. Attorney Nicholas Ganjei said Thursday.
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Juan Francisco Reyna pleaded guilty in January to conspiring to transport and harbor illegal aliens within the United States.
U.S. District Judge Keith Ellison has now ordered Reyna to serve 63 months in federal prison to be immediately followed by one year of supervised release. The sentence included additional time for bringing in children, reckless endangerment and being a “leader/organizer in the conspiracy,” Ganjei said.
“If you engage in these crimes, if you break our nation’s immigration laws, you will be caught and you will be punished. Simple as that,” Ganjei said…