Posted on 01/15/2025 3:33:57 PM PST by george76
A federal judge in the District of Vermont sentenced a Mexican national to prison following his conviction for smuggling nearly 100 migrants across the Canadian border into the U.S. The Mexican national received approximately $500,000 in smuggling fees during a five-month period.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New York announced that District Court Judge Mary Kay Lantheir sentenced Luis Fernando Barragan-Palacios, 29, of Queens, New York, to federal prison for a term of 18 months. Barragan-Palacios, originally of Oaxaca, Mexico, is expected to be deported upon the completion of his sentence.
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According to prosecutors, Barragan-Palacios failed to yield when Swanton Sector Border Patrol agents attempted to stop his rented pickup truck near the Canadian border with Vermont. Despite the icy road conditions, Barragan-Palacios recklessly led the agents on a high-speed pursuit.
Barragan-Palacios’ speed approached 85 mph as he fled from the agents. The agents later learned that the Mexican human smuggler had six migrants laying down unsecured in the bed of the pickup truck and unbelted in the cab.
Barragan-Palacios pleaded guilty in 2024 to conspiring with others to transport migrants who illegally crossed the border from Canada into the United States
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he made approximately 30 human smuggling trips between August 2023 and January 2024.
During the five months of the smuggling scheme, Barragan-Palacios moved nearly 100 migrants from the Canadian border in Vermont to the New York City area. He admitted to receiving approximately a half-million dollars for his participation in the human smuggling scheme.
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That story might well get him into Wharton.
Did he remember to kick back 10% to the Big Guy?
Art of the Dealing.
18 months?! He should’ve received 18 years!
We need extremely high mandatory minimums for human smuggling and the penalties for burglarizing the nation should be steeper with mandatory minimums as well. If we gotta build more prisons, then so be it. Government at all levels are failing to protect the nation from invasion.
Hey, he was just doing the smuggling that us lazy Americans don’t want to do.
$500,000 for 18 months efforts???
PRETTY GOOD MONEY
What union does he belong to?
To cross into the US from Canada just teach the illegals a few ways to pronounce words to sound Canadian. Shhedyoul instead of schedule. Aboot, not about. Some dawwlers, not dollars.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fpoYrnwGJ4
In Michigan, especially close to the Upper Peninsula border, Sarnia or Windsor, we’re used to it.
I think they counted him, and other human traffickers, as “jobs created”....
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