A criminal network stretching from India to Canada made money smuggling families seeking better lives in the United States, including a man who died holding his three-year-old son in snow and freezing temperatures, federal prosecutors plan to argue at a trial starting on Monday in Minnesota.
Prosecutors have accused Indian national Harshkumar Ramanlal Patel, 29, of running the scheme and Steve Shand, 50, of Florida of waiting in a truck for 11 migrants, including the couple and two children who died after they tried to walk across the border to the U.S.
