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Minnesota trial exposes 'unthinkable cruelty of human smuggling'

U.S. prosecutors won a victory in court Friday, securing convictions for two men implicated after a family of four from India froze to death trying to walk across the border from Manitoba in the dead of winter. But with a dysfunctional immigration system, and the winds of political change blowing on both sides of the border, some experts fear similar tragedies could continue to happen.

U.S. prosecutors won a victory in court Friday, securing convictions for two men implicated after a family of four from India froze to death trying to walk across the border from Manitoba in the dead of winter.

But with a dysfunctional immigration system, and the winds of political change blowing on both sides of the border, some experts fear similar tragedies could continue to happen..