AISD maintenance worker smuggled 500 immigrants through Austin

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A former Austin Independent School District maintenance worker and his wife who smuggled more than 500 undocumented immigrants into the United States from Mexico were sentenced to several years in prison, Thursday.
San Juana Valdez Menchaca, 54, was sentenced to 70 months in federal prison. Her husband, 57-year-old Julian Perez Perez, the former AISD employee, was sentenced to 33 months. The couple pleaded guilty on July 7, 2016 to one count of conspiracy to transport