Mexican National sentenced on immigration charges

Nikki Henderson

03/24/2015 09:24 AM
03/24/2015 09:32 AM

(mgn online)
A Mexican national learns their punishment for selling counterfeit identification documents in Shreveport-Bossier and for illegally reentering the United States.

U.S. Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced Monday that Nazario Flores-Cordero, 45, was sentenced to 18 months on one count of fraud and misuse of visas, permits and other documents; one count of false representation of a Social Security account number; and one count of illegal re-entry to the U.S. following deportation.

A second Mexican national was sentenced to six months in prison for hiring an illegal alien.

Jesus Francisco Herrera-Gonzalez, 36, also of Mexico, was sentenced on one count of encouraging and inducing Nazario Flores-Cordero, an illegal alien, to reside in the U.S. by illegally employing him. They were also ordered to be deported following the completion of their prison terms.

According to the evidence presented at the Dec. 2, 2014 guilty pleas, Flores-Cordero sold counterfeited or altered fake permanent resident cards and Social Security cards from Oct. 2011 to May 2014 in the Shreveport-Bossier City area that were to be used to falsely show that illegal aliens were lawfully in the U.S. and could be employed.

Each counterfeit permanent resident card showed the name of the individual and photograph of the individual to be employed.

Each counterfeit Social Security card falsely used and represented a Social Security account number not assigned to the individual named on the card.

Flores-Cordero was also found to be illegally in the U.S. after he was last removed from the U.S. to Mexico in 2013.

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