Prosecutors said during the trial that Patel, an Indian national who they say went by the alias “Dirty Harry,” and Shand, a U.S. citizen from Florida, were part of a sophisticated illegal operation that brought dozens of people from India to Canada on student visas and then smuggled them across the U.S. border.
Men face prison for human smuggling after an Indian family of 4 died on the U.S.-Canada border
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He said smugglers and shady business interests promised many migrants an American dream that doesn’t exist when they arrive.
Trial beginning in human smuggling case after freezing deaths of Indian family at Canada-U.S. border
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