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HAMPTON, Iowa --- Authorities late last month arrested two men in Hampton in separate cases for being in the country illegally.

Fernando Lopez-Abarca, 26, and Andres Baez-Acevedo, 41, are both citizens of Mexico, according to Shawn Neudauer, public affairs officer for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Removal Operations office in Des Moines.

Lopez and Baez had outstanding orders of removal issued by a federal immigration judge and were considered fugitives by ICE at the time of their arrests, Neudauer said.

Authorities ordered Lopez removed from the U.S. after he failed to appear before an immigration judge March 18.

Baez was ordered out after failing to appear March 27, 2012. He has been deported twice previously, in 1998 and 2001, and has a prior conviction for re-entry of an illegal immigrant after deportation, a federal felony.

Lopez and Baez will remain in custody pending removal from the U.S.

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