An Indian migrant who survived a deadly trek across the Canada-U.S. border in blizzard conditions is ... profit they earned by smuggling migrants from India across the Canadian border into the U.S.,” Lipes told the jury. Attorney Thomas Leinenweber ...

It happens more often than people realize: human smuggling across borders. People who want a chance at a better life in another country, but cannot afford to become citizens legally, pay hefty amounts of money to smugglers to be transported to specific countries in order to end a life of poverty,

Prosecutors will argue Harshkumar Ramanlal Patel and Steve Shand were part of an operation that scouted clients in India, got them Canadian student visas and smuggled them into the U.S.