US Supreme Court strikes down 'Remain in Mexico' policy in last decision of term

The US Supreme Court ruled 5-4 on Thursday that the Biden administration can end a Trump-era immigration policy commonly known as "Remain in Mexico" that required thousands of asylum seekers to wait outside the US while their cases were processed in immigration court. The controversial policy was suspended by President Joe Biden when he took office, but was later reinstated by the administration after lower courts blocked the Biden administration from terminating it.

@ Twitter events/US National News, 1 hr. ago

Here's what the resolutions were in two past similar (though never as horrific a toll) cases, I looked them up.

Trucker In Human Smuggling Case Sentenced To Life In Prison

@ NPR, April 20, 2018

if you recall this case, at first this guy was presented as maybe an innocent know nothing

but the article suggests not so here

It was not the first time Bradley had a run-in with law enforcement. The Express-News reported details of a criminal record that included charges of felony menacing and third-degree assault.

also note

In this case, Durbin announced in September that the government would not seek the death penalty.

Bradley's defense hoped to shorten his sentence by arguing that he had cooperated with investigators when he gave them information that led to charges against one of the smugglers in the ring, The Express-News reported. The defense also argued that his act was manslaughter as opposed to second-degree murder, according to the paper.

Then here's the other one that was similar, way back in 2003

Driver avoids execution in smuggling deaths

A truck driver accused in the deaths of 19 illegal immigrants crammed into his sweltering tractor-trailer was convicted Tuesday of smuggling but was spared the death penalty.

 @ AP, March 23. 2005

photo caption Truck driver Tyrone Williams, accused of driving and abandoning an trailer packed with more than 70 illegal immigrants, walks behind a marshal Tuesday as he leaves the federal courthouse in Houston.

A truck driver was convicted Wednesday for his role in the deaths of 19 illegal immigrants who clawed at the walls of his sweltering tractor-trailer and screamed for air as he smuggled them across Texas.

The 2003 journey was the deadliest human smuggling attempt in U.S. history.

Tyrone Williams, 34, was found guilty on 38 counts of transporting illegal immigrants but was spared the death penalty because the jury could not agree on whether he bore direct responsibility for the deaths.

The judge also declared a mistrial on 20 counts of conspiracy and harboring after the jury deadlocked on those charges during 2½ days of deliberations. One of those charges also carried the death penalty.

Williams, who smiled when he learned he would not face the death penalty, could get life in prison.

Prosecutors said during the nine-day trial that Williams was paid $7,500 by a smuggling ring to transport more than 70 illegal immigrants from Harlingen to Houston in May 2003. The refrigeration unit on Williams’ trailer was not turned on for the trip, and authorities said temperatures inside reached 173 degrees.

Desperate fight to live [....]