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Guatemalan police arrest 7 accused of trafficking the 53 migrants who asphyxiated in Texas in 2022

Rigoberto Roman Miranda Orozco, the ringleader of Guatemalans accused of having smuggled 53 migrants from Mexico and Central America who died of asphyxiation in 2022 in Texas, sits in a cell at a courtroom in Guatemala City, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Rigoberto Roman Miranda Orozco, the ringleader of Guatemalans accused of having smuggled 53 migrants from Mexico and Central America who died of asphyxiation in 2022 in Texas, sits in a cell at a courtroom in Guatemala City, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Rigoberto Roman Miranda Orozco, the ringleader of various Guatemalans accused of having smuggled 53 migrants from Mexico and Central America who died of asphyxiation in 2022 in Texas, sits in a cell at a courtroom in Guatemala City, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Rigoberto Roman Miranda Orozco, the ringleader of various Guatemalans accused of having smuggled 53 migrants from Mexico and Central America who died of asphyxiation in 2022 in Texas, sits in a cell at a courtroom in Guatemala City, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

FILE - Mourners visit a make-shift memorial to honor the victims and survivors of the recent human smuggling tragedy, Wednesday, July 6, 2022, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

FILE - Mourners visit a make-shift memorial to honor the victims and survivors of the recent human smuggling tragedy, Wednesday, July 6, 2022, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)