WaPo: “Two Mexican nationals charged in the deaths of 53 migrants — who perished in June 2022 in this country’s deadliest smuggling incident — were found guilty on all counts Tuesday in a federal courtroom in San Antonio.
Neither Felipe Orduña-Torres nor Armando Gonzales-Ortega was accused of driving the vehicle that crossed the border and wound up on the outskirts of San Antonio on a broiling summer afternoon, with more than five dozen adults and children packed in a trailer with no water and little to no air conditioning.
Instead, the two men were accused of conspiracy to transport illegal migrants resulting in their death. According to court records, they worked with smugglers in Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Mexico to move undocumented immigrants to destinations throughout the United States. Prosecutors said Orduña-Torres held the list of names of people to transport, while Gonzales-Ortega helped load people into the truck.”