A Bangladeshi man has been sentenced to 46 months in prison for his involvement in the "smuggling" of undocumented individuals from Mexico into the US.
According to court documents, between March 2017 and June 2019, Mohamad Milon Hossain, 41, a Bangladeshi national, formerly residing in Mexico's Tapachula, assisted human smugglers operating out of Bangladesh, South and Central America, and Mexico to bring numerous undocumented individuals to the US border in exchange for payment.
Milon operated out of Tapachula where he maintained a hotel that housed the individuals on their way to the US, said the Department of Justice, Office of Public Affairs Tuesday.
The Bangladesh national provided plane tickets and other assistance for the individuals to travel from Tapachula to Monterrey of Mexico, where co-conspirator Moktar Hossain assisted their illegal crossing into the US.
"This human smuggling conspiracy operated on a global scale and endangered the lives of Bangladeshi migrants," said Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A Polite Jr of the Justice Department's Criminal Division.
"The Justice Department will continue working with our law enforcement partners here and abroad to bring human smugglers like Hossain to justice and to disrupt these criminal networks that unlawfully bring migrants from across the world into the US."
