US judge sentences Guatemalan smuggler to 30 years over 2022 Texas truck deaths

A federal judge sentenced Rigoberto Ramon Miranda-Orozco to 30 years for the 2022 smuggling operation that killed 53 migrants in a San Antonio tractor-trailer.

• US District Judge Orlando Garcia sentenced Rigoberto Ramon Miranda-Orozco to 30 years on Tuesday, following his extradition from Guatemala in March 2025.
• Miranda-Orozco pleaded guilty in July to conspiracy and aiding charges after admitting to arranging travel for two migrants who died and one who was injured.
• The June 2022 incident killed 53 migrants trapped inside a tractor-trailer, 21 of them Guatemalan nationals.
• The operation's US leader, Felipe Orduna-Torres, was sentenced to life in prison in June 2025.