{"id":17726,"date":"2018-10-12T10:13:19","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T14:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=17726"},"modified":"2018-12-28T09:45:51","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T14:45:51","slug":"deported-15-times-illegal-alien-will-get-another-trip-home-after-human-smuggling-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2018\/10\/12\/deported-15-times-illegal-alien-will-get-another-trip-home-after-human-smuggling-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Deported 15 Times, Illegal Alien Will Get Another Trip Home After Human Smuggling Deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of President Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cbad hombres\u201d<\/a> is going to federal prison and then back to Mexico over a deadly\u00a0human smuggling scheme.<\/p>\n

Pedro Silva-Segura, a Mexican national involved in a transport operation that ended in the deaths of 10 illegal aliens<\/a> in San Antonio, was sentenced to nine years behind bars.<\/p>\n

Himself an illegal alien who has been deported 15 times from the U.S., Silva-Segura took a plea deal that capped his sentence.<\/p>\n

“(He’s the) poster child for President Trump,” U.S. District Judge David Ezra said at sentencing Wednesday. “This is not a good thing.”<\/p>\n

Ezra said he would have sentenced Silva-Segura to 30 to 40 years, but the plea bargain tied his hands.<\/p>\n

Silva-Segura, 47, ran a stash house for a Mexican cartel in Laredo. In December 2017, more than 100 illegals were stuffed into an un-air-conditioned 18-wheeler and transported north.<\/p>\n

Defense attorney Adriana Arce-Flores said her client was just a small cog in a much larger criminal enterprise. “I’m hopeful that the government will continue an investigation into this case to get the people that should be (in federal court),” she said.<\/p>\n

Investigation of the pre-Christmas incident was hobbled from the outset when San Antonio Police Chief William McManus allowed the release of illegal aliens who should have been detained as material witnesses.<\/p>\n

A Department of Homeland Security<\/a> report said the chief turned away a Homeland Security Investigations agent at the scene, saying he did not want HSI to \u201cscare people.\u201d<\/p>\n

The driver of the rig, 61-year-old James Matthew Bradley, Jr., was previously sentenced to life in prison for transporting illegal aliens resulting in death, the same charge as Silva-Segura.<\/p>\n

Silva-Segura will be deported — for the 16th<\/sup> time — after serving his prison term.<\/p>\n

In another smuggling case<\/a> that ended in San Antonio, a man charged with hauling more than 50 illegal aliens from the Mexican border in a refrigerated truck last summer was sentenced to at least 70 months in federal prison.<\/p>\n

Gerardo Carreon, 36, of Laredo, pleaded guilty to illegally transporting migrants for money.