{"id":58077,"date":"2024-12-18T16:46:25","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T00:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=58077"},"modified":"2024-12-18T16:46:25","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T00:46:25","slug":"mexican-woman-indicted-for-leading-human-smuggling-organization-that-brought-100-migrants-to-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=58077","title":{"rendered":"Mexican Woman Indicted for Leading Human Smuggling Organization That Brought 100 Migrants to U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"node-body\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"field-formatter--text-default field-text-format--wysiwyg text-formatted field_body\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6759 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Department-of-Justice-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Department-of-Justice-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Department-of-Justice-90x60.jpg 90w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Department-of-Justice.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>A Mexican national extradited to the United States from Mexico in 2023 pleaded guilty Wednesday to leading a human smuggling conspiracy operating in Mexicali on the U.S.-Mexico border for several years, officials stated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">According to court documents, Ofelia Hernandez-Salas, 63, led a human smuggling operation that brought over 100 migrants into the United States. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">The officials stated that migrants came from or traveled through countries including Bangladesh, Yemen, Pakistan, Eritrea, India, the UAE, Uzbekistan, Russia, Egypt, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Mexico.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Hernandez-Salas\u2019 organization charged the migrants as much as tens of thousands of dollars to make the journey and directed the migrants where to illegally cross the border into the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15368 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Courtroom.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"271\" height=\"245\" \/>The organization provided migrants with a ladder to climb over the border fence. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Hernandez-Salas and co-conspirators also robbed the migrants of money and personal belongings while armed with guns and knives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u201cHuman smugglers are ruthless \u2014 they lie to, steal from, and gravely endanger their victims, wreaking death and devastation across our region,\u201d said Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas. \u201cThe Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will continue to work with our federal and international partners to help dismantle human smuggling operations and bring perpetrators to justice.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Hernandez-Salas pleaded guilty to conspiracy to bring an alien to the United States and three substantive counts of bringing an alien to the United States for commercial benefit or private financial gain. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">She is scheduled to be sentenced on March 10. She faces up to 15 years in prison. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">In June 2023, the U.S. Department of the Treasury\u2019s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)\u00a0<a class=\"ext\" href=\"https:\/\/home.treasury.gov\/news\/press-releases\/jy1545\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-extlink=\"\">imposed corresponding sanctions<\/a>\u00a0on the Hernandez-Salas transnational criminal organization.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Hernandez-Salas and co-defendant Raul Saucedo-Huipio, 50, were\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/two-co-conspirators-indicted-role-prolific-global-human-smuggling-conspiracy\">arrested<\/a>\u00a0by Mexican authorities at the request of the United States in March 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"> Saucedo-Huipio remains in custody in Mexico.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: 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