United States v. Maria Asuncion Martinez De Hernandez, Baldomero Hernandez-Gonzales, Carmen Perea, Carlos Perea, Salvador Pineda-Vergara

SETH, Chief Judge.

This is a consolidated appeal taken by five defendants from their convictions on various charges relating to the unlawful transportation of illegal aliens. 8 U.S.C. § 1324; 18 U.S.C. §§ 2, 371.

The Government established at trial that numerous Mexican and El Salvadoran citizens who wished to enter the United States contacted the defendant Pineda-Vergara. Pineda-Vergara owned a sort of rooming house at Ciudad Juarez to which the persons would come. Apparently he would then arrange for them to cross the Rio Grande and illegally enter the United States through the city of El…