Mexican man sentenced for immigration violations

Associated Press - September 3, 2009 4:24 PM ET

PHOENIX (AP) - Arizona authorities say a Mexican man has been sentenced to more than eight years in prison for multiple immigration convictions.

Prosecutors say 39-year-old Miguel Angel Valenzuela-Valenzuela, of Sonora, was sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Phoenix to 98 months in prison.

They say Valenzuela-Valenzuela pleaded guilty in April to a single-count indictment charging him with illegal re-entry after prior deportation. He also admitted to violating his term of supervised release from a previous 2003 conviction.

Valenzuela-Valenzuela had been deported to Mexico through San Ysidro, Calif., in October 2008 and caught in the U.S. again last Feb. 19.

Authorities say his immigration history includes three prior immigration convictions and his criminal history includes multiple drug convictions in California and Oregon from 1989-2002.

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