WASHINGTON, June 26 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's Criminal Division issued the following news release:
A dual Canadian American citizen who was extradited from Canada pleaded guilty today for his role in a human smuggling conspiracy that resulted in the deaths of a family, including two children under the age of three, in the St. Lawrence River.
"This case is a tragic example of what happens when alien smugglers act for their own greed with callous disregardfor human life and for the orderly administration of our nation's immigration laws," said Assistant Attorney GeneralA. Tysen Duvaofthe Justice Department's Criminal Division. "Through investigations and prosecutions, we will continue to eliminatealien smugglingnetworks that flout...