What do you think of human smugglers who pack 70 people into a hot tractor trailer, don't help them and 19 die

Question

Looks like they are having a hard time finding an unbiased jury for this guy, one way and another....

"Jury selection began Tuesday with 38 people saying they couldn't impose a death sentence. Thirty-nine said they already had an opinion about Williams' guilt, and 27 others said they had strong opinions about illegal immigration that would affect their ability to serve as jurors.

Williams was convicted last year on 38 counts of transporting illegal immigrants, but the convictions were overturned on appeal."


Is this something all sides of the debate can agree on? Or is there another opinion out there?

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2006/10/03/jury_picks_for_smuggling_deaths_trial/

Answer 1

very confusing story.

One needs to go back to the history of those people.

Many people who are being 'trafficed" have no means to live in their own native country and someone gives them a promise of 'better land', land of milk and honey. And strangly, the people who talk to them are usually liers who say those promises in their own native langage, so the trust is there. Most of the people who are being trafficed, do not speek english, mostly uneducated, true work force.

Sometimes, also, the traffic guys who do the trasportation, threaten those poor people and say they will kill them or their family. It honestly often happens and many ignore that. They say, if they say a word all their families back home will be killed. And some families do get killed.

A normal behaviour of human being is to screem and shout when someone dies, ask yourself why did those people keep totaly quite and wait?? if 70 people (or say 60 after 10 die) will screem, or move from side to side the tractor would have overturned. Question is why they did nothing?? Just because they were scared of being found?? Or maybe some poisened? Did someone check?

The trafficing is a huge bussiness and it is actually slavering, in a true meaning of the word. Body parts, prostitution, etc

I know some stories where man had paid money to be moved (emplty promises) gave up the pasports, all money just to go to his land of 'milk and honey' (talked into it by family friend.. yes thats the way they gain their trust) and later died. That also applies to many young ladies, who were promised better life by their future employer and in the meantime they becoming prostitutes (all documents are being taken away and often those trafficing experts have government connections etc.. like cops, people on the border.. ask yourself, how do they get away keeping all those poor 70 people in the truck over the boarder hey???)

No, the man is quitly as charged. I dont think is was done deliberate, so it is a mansloughter (not a first degree!! and should not be sentence to death but life), however this case should be investigated by FBI. It is deeper and more people are responsible.

Just because a person wants a better life or an opportunity, it does not mean he desirves to die (just because he wanst to feed his kids). Its as if all those biased jury gives the guy the right over those people lifes!! As they give him right to take a guy and shoot all those people and walk unpunished.. what exaple are we giving to the rest of the people who do the trafficing??

All law is based on examples, so this should be an exaple to show the other trafficing experts that there is a law!!

Yes, those people should be returned, but firstly investigated, exactly what is going on.

and yes, the responsible guy (together with the border officials) should have a long and open (public) enquarie.

I hope he will be convicted for life.

This is really sad.

Answer 2

All sides of what debate? This seems to be about whether Williams did or did not commit the crimes as charged. The rights or non-rights of illegal aliens are not the issue - they are at best a smokescreen raised by the usual scum of the defense bar to gain a modicum of sympathy for Williams as perhaps just a nice guy trying to give the poor aliens a hand (all expenses prepaid).

Did his negligence lead to the deaths and were the increased chances of such deaths predictable as a result of the deliberate neglect of proper safety and other procedures? That's where the debate should lie, and it's a debate to be played out in the court-room. If there's an option, it has to do with the nature of US trials that allow debates between attorneys to obfuscate the facts and pollute the logic needed to properly judge the degrees of responsibility involved - the degrees of guilt and innocence, if you will.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Pro Illegal will Blame America and demand the man be set free awarded a green card and a million dollars in cash for troubling him. People keep suggesting Mexico is the poorest nation in the world.

Answer 5

That was a terrible thing,I remember that when it happened.I remember thinking how could any one do any thing that inhumane .This man Williams and all the others involved in this horrendous crime need to be given death sentences.it was clearly murder whether intended or not.The obvious neglect of theses people has no excuse, they didn't deserve to die that way.no one would deserve that under any circumstances..No matter what they were trying to do.You shouldn't have to die while trying to come to this country.It doesn't matter in this case,what their legal status was at the time.

Answer 6

Back home we called them "coyotes", the worst sort of human scum. They get paid, a lot to transport illegals, then cram them into unsanitary conditions for days, weeks, dont feed them, no water, no medical, often as not rob the ones that have anything, molest the women and then just as likely to sell them as slaves as let them out in the desired country.

Answer 7

He agreed to take them over - they agreed to jump in (all 70 of them) - - they weren't born yesterday - they knew better than that. They got what they deserved. His karma will come back around. He should be banned from this country on account of being a TRAITOR!

Answer 8

Kick the illegals out and kill the coyotes and snakeheads who bring them in as an example to others that this will happen to you!

Answer 9

The question is...Why did these people get into the trailer in the first place and what can that country do to help people to not risk their life....

Answer 10

Part of the problem are people who will allow themselves to be packed like sardines into a trailer in the first place.