WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's Criminal Division issued the following news release:
A federal grand jury in the Western District of Texas returned a superseding indictment charging a total of 14 individuals, including seven illegal aliens, three non-citizens, and four U.S. citizens, for their roles in a conspiracy to smuggle aliens into the United States for profit. This included a failed human smuggling event that resulted in the deaths of seven people, including one child, who died after being loaded into a poorly ventilated shipping container.
"By allegedly orchestrating this deadly human smuggling scheme, these defendants showed no regard for the value of human life and put people in harm's way to pad their own...