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Indian sentenced to three years imprisonment in US

Washington: An Indian has been sentenced to three years of imprisonment on charges of trafficking immigrants from India into United States, the Department of Justice said.
In addition to their prison terms, Thakkar and Amorim were sentenced to serve two years of supervised release, as per the order of the US District Judge Ewing Werlein in Southern of Texas.
For their smuggling operations, Thakkar, Amorim and their associates used a network of co-conspirators in South America, Central America, the Caribbean and the United States, including the state of Texas.
Using this network, they and their co-conspirators transported groups of undocumented migrants from locations within India through South America, Central America and the
Caribbean and then into the US by various means, including by air travel, automobiles, water craft and foot, the Justice Department said.
Many of these smuggling events involved illegal entry into US via the border between United States and Mexico near McAllen and Laredo, Texas, it added.

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