[Robert A Cook PE]

Good.

[Lean-Right]

Sad for those that suffered, but
you pay your money, and take your
chances. Knowing full well the
consequences. If these people are
going to die, they may as well die
trying to right the injustices in
their respective countries. At
least then, it would be a Nobel
cause.

[jmacusa]

While this is certainly a tragedy the greater tragedy is that Mexico cares nothing for providing Mexicans opportunities for a better life without Mexicans having to resort to things like this.

[Secret Agent Man]

He should have been sentenced for the illegal alien smuggling, not the deaths.

[Cobra64]

Good. All of these bastards smuggling ILLEGALS should be tried and executed.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

The perp:

[a fool in paradise]

Go up the chain of command.
Who hired this mule? Who runs the operation?
Who did the riders pay for their passage?

Any border guards on the take?

[A_Former_Democrat]

Thievy cant even find the death penalty for this . . .

What cowards

[Gay State Conservative]

If they were engaged in a legal activity when they died I’d have enormous sympathy.But they weren’t...so I don’t.

[BillyBonebrake]

Sanctuary City mayors are just as complicit as this truck driver.

[SamuraiScot]

I don't get this. Did he kill them intentionally--was it his plan all along? (And if so, wouldn't he have just taken their money and shot them without driving all that way?) Would his sentence have been that harsh if he'd, say, raped and murdered someone intentionally? Not in today's court system.

This is bad and awful and serious-jail worthy, of course--but why is this more serious than Charles Manson's sentence?

[eccentric]

I would approve of this except now the taxpayers will be stuck with the killers old age medical expenses.

[PAR35]

So life in prison was preferable to the fate that awaited him if he had given up folks up the organizational chain from him?

Or is it that the DOJ didn’t want to work up the chain?

[Man from Oz]

It should be an automatic 30 years in prison if caught smuggling humans on either the north and especially the southern border.

Our govt needs to go after these people with a vengeance. They are the ones who know and exploit the best locations of egress to penetrate our country’s border.

I think this would effectively curtail the movement of women and children and especially OTM.

[deport]

[dfwgator]

Smugglers should be summarily executed on the spot.

This is war.

[Lurker]

“Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Friday afternoon.”

Hey, look who woke up.

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