The U.S. side of the Manitoba-Minnesota border near where migrants walking from Canada were found frozen to death highlights the austere and perilous conditions.Photo by U.S. Border Patrol

'My heart sank': Toys, mittens sparked search for family found frozen near border, trial hears

Prosecutors say the family of four Indian migrants froze to death Jan. 19, 2022, after spending hours wandering in heavy snow and bone-chilling cold

by · National Post

FERGUS FALLS, Minn. — A U.S. border patrol intelligence agent recalled Tuesday feeling horrified when he realized a group of migrants from India, including a young child, were out in a freezing blizzard on a stretch of open prairie at the border between Manitoba and Minnesota.

“My heart sank … because there’s more people out there,” Daniel Huguley testified at the trial of two accused human smugglers.

Accused smugglers put 'profit over people’s lives' with Indian family that died at Canada-U.S. border: prosecutorsFERGUS FALLS, Minn. — Two men put financial profit over human life when they attempted to smuggle a couple from India and their two young children across the U.S.-Canada border in heavy snow and bone-chilling winds, leading to the family freezing to death, prosecutors said Monday.Michael Goldberg, 19 Nov 2024Inside the smuggling ring that left a family to freeze to death on a perilous walk across Canada's borderThe family of four that froze to death while trying to secretly walk into the United States from Manitoba during a blizzard were already waiting at the drop-off point in Canada when other Indian citizens arrived for the night hike across the border.Adrian Humphreys, 26 Jan 2022