Two men convicted in connection with a human smuggling operation were sentenced in Minnesota after a family of four from India — Jagdishkumar and Vaishaliben Patel and their children, ages 11 and 3 — froze to death near the Minnesota-Manitoba border in January 2022 during a blizzard with wind chills of -36 degrees Fahrenheit. Harshkumar Ramanlal Patel, 29, received a 10-year prison sentence, and Steve Shand, 50, received more than six and a half years. Prosecutors noted that as the family wandered through the blizzard, Shand texted Patel “we not losing any money” and, when arrested by Border Patrol, denied that others were still out in the snow.

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