Thread: MN: Deported man pleads guilty; illegally re-entered US afte

Deported man pleads guilty; illegally re-entered US after conviction

By David Unze
December 23, 2010

A former Stearns County resident faces up to 20 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to illegally re-entering the United States after being deported.

Salvador Landa-Meraz, 22, was convicted of second-degree assault in Stearns County for a 2007 incident in which a man was beaten with a baseball bat at a Rockville home.

Landa-Meraz was sentenced to 21 months in prison in mid-November 2007. He served 14 months in prison then was deported to Mexico. But he was arrested in St. Cloud in mid-July 2010 on suspicion of driving while intoxicated.

A federal grand jury indicted him in September on a charge of re-entering the country after being deported.

He pleaded guilty to that charge Tuesday afternoon in Minneapolis, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Also Tuesday, another man pleaded guilty to the same charge in federal court and a third was sentenced to almost four years in prison for illegal re-entry. The charges are the result of investigations by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

http://www.sctimes.com/article/20101223 ... 20039/1009

They get deported and come back like that all the time. Police officers in South Florida see it all the time with gangmembers. They keep arresting the same ones over and over again. It is sickening to think what we have to go through at the airport and these criminals can just waltz right in, get deported and come back.

Man sentenced for illegal re-entry to US

8:16 PM, Apr. 15, 2011



A former St. Cloud man was sentenced to two years and eight months in federal prison after re-entering the United States when he had been deported after committing a felony assault.

Salvador Landa-Meraz, 23, pleaded guilty to the charge of illegal re-entry after deportation.

He had been convicted in Stearns County of second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon in 2007 and later was deported to Mexico.

Landa-Meraz was arrested in St. Cloud in July for driving while intoxicated and was in jail when he was identified as a being in the country illegally through the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Criminal Alien Program.

The goal of the CAP program is to locate criminal immigrants incarcerated in federal and state prisons, as well as in local jails, and prevent them from being released into the general population.

Landa-Meraz was indicted in September and pleaded guilty in December. He was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge John R. Tunheim.

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they have no care for the law. its obvious because they re-entered illegally.

give them the maximum time in jail, no compromises