Thread: CO-Illegal return to U.S. nets 15 months

Published: June 09, 2009 11:57 pm

Illegal return to U.S. nets 15 months
The man had been deported in 2005.By ROBERT BOCZKIEWICZ

DENVER — A Mexican citizen who illegally returned to the United States three months after being deported for a Pueblo crime was sentenced Monday to 15 months in prison.

U.S. District Judge Marcia Krieger sentenced Jaime Hernandez-Badillo, 28, for re-entering the country after having committed a felony and being deported.

Hernandez-Badillo admitted in a court filing that he was deported in February 2005 and illegally came back to the U.S. the following May.

He was deported after being convicted in 2004 in Pueblo for having cocaine.

Hernandez-Badillo surfaced again in the criminal justice system last August when he was arrested in Pueblo for having an unspecified controlled substance. He has relatives in Pueblo and listed his address as the 900 block of East First Street. Pueblo County jail officers turned Hernandez-Badillo over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for prosecution in federal court. Authorities said he also has used the name Ramiro Sanchez.

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U.S. District Judge Marcia Krieger sentenced Jaime Hernandez-Badillo, 28, for re-entering the country after having committed a felony and being deported.

I'd almost bet that he wouldn't have been given 15-months if he didn't have the felony on his record. As it is, he received far less than the maximum sentence of 10 years as prescribed by law for reentry after deportation. Personally, I'd say the judge was too lenient. I still say we need to build tent city prisons along the border to house illegal alien who are sentenced for immigration violations. We need to cut the cost to make it more economically feasible to incarcerate illegal aliens that return after being deported.

Penalties for illegal immigrants:

Unlawful entry: A criminal misdemeanor subject to six months in prison.
Up to two years in prison for subsequent offenses.

Unlawful re-entry after deportation: A felony, up to 10 years in prison.

Overstaying visas: A civil violation. Ineligible to return to the United States for at least three years for overstays of more than six months. Barred from returning for at least 10 years for overstays of more than a year.