WASHINGTON, July 23 -- 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 her 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.
"Aliens attempting to enter the United States illegally across the U.S.-Canada border are exposed to a range of dangers at the hands of human smugglers trying to capitalize on the misfortunes and misplaced hopes of others," said Assistant Attorney General A. Tysen Duva of the Justice Department's Criminal Division. "Here, in the face of known dangers, the defendant directed her co-conspirato...