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Two Guatemalan nationals have pleaded guilty to federal charges stemming from a December 9, 2021, tractor-trailer crash in Mexico that killed 56 migrants — including children — and left more than 100 others injured.
The Department of Homeland Security confirmed the pleas to Fox News Digital, naming the defendants as Josefa Quino Canil De Zavala and Alberto Marcario Chitic, both members of a profit-driven smuggling network that federal prosecutors say treated human beings "like a supply chain." What Human Smuggling Networks Actually Do Human smuggling, at its most organized, is a transnational criminal enterprise: recruiters sign up migrants, collectors take their money, and logistics coordinators move them — sometimes in livestock trucks — across multiple international borders toward the United States.
This case illustrates why that model is lethal. The network operating in December 2021 packed migrants into cattle trucks and tractor-trailers for the journey north from Guatemala through Mexico.
The fatal wreck occurred just north of the Guatemala-Mexico border, before the group ever reached U.S.
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