Via Daily Caller:
Two Army soldiers from Fort Bliss are staring down a prison sentence of 10 years for trying to smuggle illegals across the U.S. border.
The soldiers, 19-year-old Marco Antonio Nava Jr. and 25-year-old Joseph Edmond Cleveland, were willing to risk it all for just $1,500 and ended up pleading guilty Tuesday to human smuggling, The Associated Press reports.
They could also face a fine of up to $250,000 and three years of probation.
The two will be sentenced next year Feb. 9, and in the meantime, a federal judge in Corpus Christi ruled they can stay out of jail while on bond. The judge, not being tied down to the terms of the plea agreement, can even sentence the men to more than 10 years in prison.