The court sentenced the trucker where the illegal immigrants died.

The driver of the car, in which there were at least 39 immigrants, 10 of whom died, was sentenced to life imprisonment.

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“I’m very sorry this happened,” James Matthew Bradley Jr. said in a video statement played in court. “There is not a day or night that I do not experience this scene.”

Earlier he recognized pleading guilty in a federal court in San Antonio for conspiring to transport undocumented aliens (for financial gain), resulting in death, serious injury and a risk to human life.

Authorities report that at least 39 immigrants, most of whom were Mexicans, were in a stuffy trailer that San Antonio police found in July in a parking lot Walmart.

The court documents indicate that the surviving immigrants estimated that during the trip it was delivered from 70 to 200 people. They said that they paid different amounts for smuggling.

Recall early on the morning of July 23 police officers in San Antonio, Texas, responded to call the employee Walmartparked the truck. He heard the voice of one of the prisoners asking him to give him water.

Truck Refrigeration System did not work. Immigrants had difficulty breathing when the temperature rose to 38 degrees Celsius that day.

Signs of a struggle for the lives of people were everywhere: a hole in the wall, which people took turns breathing, blood, excrement and vomit in the corners.

Terrible details have caused shock and outrage in society.

Richard Durbin, Jr., an American lawyer from the Western District of Texas, said: “All were victims of merciless human smugglers indifferent to the well-being of their fragile cargo. Heat in South Texas is killing at this time of year. These people were helpless in the hands of their carriers. Imagine the suffering of these people trapped in a stuffy trailer. ”

Bradley’s defense hoped to reduce the term of the sentence, claiming that he had worked with the investigators. According to the statement, the defense also claimed that his act was manslaughter, unlike second-degree murder.

In a letter written to a judge, Bradley’s relatives said: “We are shocked by his actions, because it’s not James we know, love or grow.” They said that they were praying that his last years would not have been spent in the prison cell, because he has 2 type diabetes and a knee amputation. "We were told that he would still live only 5-7 for years, according to the findings of the doctors as a result of the last medical examination."

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