Texas Governor Calls for 10-Year Minimum Sentence for Aiding Human Smugglers

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said he will seek a mandatory sentence of at least ten years in prison for those who help cartels smuggling illegal immigrants into his state.
“I’m calling for 10 year mandatory minimum prison sentences for Texans who aid the cartels by transporting illegal immigrants. It is a growing crime where Texans are lured in by cartel cash,” Abbott wrote on Twitter Wednesday night. “We must end it this legislative session.”
Currently, under the state’s penal code, human smuggling is a third-degree felony that, if convicted, carries a sentence of at least two years and as many as ten years in prison. In addition, the offender could be fined up to $10,000, according to the penal code….}