‘They going to be alive when they get to the US?'
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TIMESOFINDIA.COM
May 29, 2025, 15:44 IST IST
A US court has sentenced Harsh Patel, alias 'Dirty Harry', to 10 years in prison for running a smuggling ring that led to the deaths of four of a Gujarati family at the US-Canada border in 2022. His partner, Steve Anthony Shand, will spend six years and six months in jail. But despite global headlines the tragedy made, the illegal migration pipeline remains active
The sentencing of two men in a US court this week for a 2022 border crossing tragedy has delivered justice, but will it serve as a deterrence?
More than three years after four members of a Gujarati family — Jagdish Patel , 39, his wife Vaishali, 37, and their children, Vihangi, 11, and Dharmik, 3 — were frozen to death in a snow-covered field along the US-Canada border, the human smuggling pipeline that led them there continues to thrive.
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