圣安东尼奥拖车惨案走私头目被判终身监禁 53名移民死于闷热车厢
2025年6月27日，在德克萨斯州贝克斯县圣安东尼奥市的联邦法院，法官 Orlando Garcia 判处人口走私组织头目 Felipe Orduna-Torres 终身监禁并处罚金25万美元，其主要助手 Armando Gonzales-Ortega 被判1,050个月监禁并处罚金25万美元。宣判日恰好是三年前那场惨案的三周年，53名移民在那次走私中死于一辆闷热的拖车车厢。
司法部说，这个走私组织在2021年12月至2022年6月间，把来自危地马拉、洪都拉斯与墨西哥的成人与儿童非法带入美国。Orduna-Torres 现年30岁，是组织的领导与组织者；Gonzales-Ortega 现年55岁，是协调人。两人共用路线、向导、藏匿点与车辆，把多批走私合并以压低成本、抬高利润。今年3月，联邦陪审团裁定两人三项罪名成立，涉及在美国境内运送外国人并致人死亡、造成严重身体伤害与危及生命。
2022年6月27日那一车里，至少64人被装进拖车，其中包括8名儿童与1名孕妇。法庭证据显示，包括 Orduna-Torres 在内的一些被告明知拖车的冷藏机组已经故障、没有向车厢里送冷气。卡车在约三小时车程后抵达圣安东尼奥，开门时48人已经死亡或当场死亡，其中包括那名孕妇；16人被送往医院，其中5人随后死亡。死者共53人，包括47名成人与6名儿童。
法院还判令 Orduna-Torres 支付9.6万美元的金钱判决，并没收一辆2008年 Volvo 半挂牵引车、一辆1995年 Phoenix 拖车、一辆2015年 Cadillac Escalade、一辆2017年 Ford F-350 卡车与59,445.50美元。同案另有5名被告已经认罪，将在今年11月至12月间陆续宣判。
司法部长 Pamela Bondi 说：「这些罪犯将因他们以他人苦难牟利的残酷选择而在监狱里度过余生。」国土安全调查局圣安东尼奥负责人 Craig Larrabee 说，此案是美国历史上最致命的人口走私行动，人口走私不是服务、而是致命的犯罪行当。
（来源：美国司法部）
Leader of Deadly San Antonio Tractor-Trailer Smuggling Ring Sentenced to Life in Prison
On June 27, 2025, in a federal court in San Antonio, a city in Bexar County, Texas, U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia sentenced Felipe Orduna-Torres, a leader of a human smuggling organization, to life in prison and a $250,000 fine, and his top coordinator, Armando Gonzales-Ortega, to 1,050 months in prison and a $250,000 fine. The sentencing fell exactly three years after the smuggling run in which 53 migrants died inside a sweltering tractor-trailer.
The Justice Department said the organization illegally brought adults and children from Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico into the United States between December 2021 and June 2022. Orduna-Torres, 30, was a leader and organizer, and Gonzales-Ortega, 55, was a coordinator. The two shared routes, guides, stash houses, trucks and trailers to consolidate costs and maximize profit. In March, a federal jury found both men guilty of three counts related to transporting aliens within the United States resulting in death, causing serious bodily injury and placing lives in jeopardy.
At least 64 people, including eight children and one pregnant woman, were loaded into the trailer for the June 27, 2022 run. Trial evidence showed that some defendants, including Orduna-Torres, knew the trailer's refrigeration unit was malfunctioning and was not blowing cool air to the migrants inside. When the tractor-trailer completed its roughly three-hour journey to San Antonio and the doors were opened, 48 migrants were already dead or died on site, including the pregnant woman. Sixteen people were taken to hospitals, five of whom died. The dead totaled 53: 47 adults and six children.
The court also ordered Orduna-Torres to pay a $96,000 money judgment and forfeit one 2008 Volvo semi-tractor, one 1995 Phoenix trailer, one 2015 Cadillac Escalade, one 2017 Ford F-350 Super Duty truck and $59,445.50. Five other defendants in the case have pleaded guilty and are scheduled to be sentenced in November and December.
"These criminals will spend the rest of their lives in prison because of their cruel choice to profit off of human suffering," said Attorney General Pamela Bondi. Craig Larrabee, special agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations in San Antonio, called it the deadliest human smuggling operation in U.S. history and said human smuggling is not a service but a deadly criminal enterprise.
(Source: U.S. Department of Justice)
来源：美国司法部
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图片来源：图：位于圣安东尼奥的美国联邦法院 John H. Wood Jr. 大楼。Toohool 摄，CC BY-SA 4.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: The John H. Wood Jr. United States Courthouse in San Antonio. Photo by Toohool, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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