A previously deported illegal alien, Jorge Adan Fontes-Garcia, has been sentenced to 130 months in prison after pleading guilty to Bringing an Illegal Alien to the United States Unlawfully Resulting in Death.
The sentence also addressed Fontes-Garcia’s violation of federal supervision, which the Court imposed after his prior conviction for Reentry of an Illegal Alien.
The 26-year-old’s prison sentence is to be followed by 60 months of supervised release.
According to the Department of Justice, on August 23, 2023, Fontes-Garcia acted as the foot guide, leading a group of eight aliens across the Mexico-United States border into southern Arizona. United States Border Patrol apprehended all but one of the illegal aliens in the open desert approximately 19 miles south of Tacna, Arizona. The remaining alien was found by Border Patrol agents shortly thereafter, already deceased due to excessive heat exposure.
“Human smuggling results in numerous deaths every year as smugglers are more concerned with profit than the lives of the people they are smuggling,” said Chief Patrol Agent Justin De La Torre, Yuma Sector Border Patrol. “This sentence sends a clear message to anyone considering smuggling foreign nationals into the country – ‘if you do, we will arrest you, and you will be held accountable.’”
Well, that’s one way to get a 10-year visa to stay in the U.S.