Men Get Prison for Human Smuggling After Frozen Deaths of Migrant Family at Border

A view of the landscape outside the hamlet of St. Vincent, Minn., looking north towards the Canada-U.S. border, is shown on Jan. 25, 2022, not far from where RCMP officers recovered the bodies of four unidentified Indian nationals. The Canadian Press/James McCarten

A judge in Minnesota sentenced two men to prison Wednesday for their roles in a human smuggling operation that saw a family freeze to death in southern Manitoba near the Canada-U.S. border.

Harshkumar Patel, who was convicted of organizing the logistics of smuggling trips from Canada into the United states, was given 10 years.