Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite, Jr. Delivers Remarks Announcing Joint Task Force Alpha’s Human Smuggling Takedown Operation

Thank you for joining us today. I am happy to be here in San Antonio to highlight our team, our whole-of-government efforts in combatting human smuggling and the risk to life it poses. We are here to announce the unsealing of an indictment in a case charging four Guatemalan nationals with an international human smuggling conspiracy that caused the death of a young woman, an indigenous Guatemalan migrant. As you will read in the court filings, in the spring of 2021, the young woman died in the course of the dangerous journey these defendants, and others, used to smuggle her and others into the United States.