The defendant facilitated illegal immigration of aliens from Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America, often committing armed robberies of the smuggled aliens.
“Transnational human smuggling at a large scale directly threatens our national security,” said Assistant Attorney General A. Tysen Duva of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. “Ofelia Hernandez Salas and her co-conspirators endangered our communities on a massive scale by illegally bringing foreign nationals from more than a dozen countries into the United States."
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