Thread: Illegal alien gets 69 months for illegal re-entry

I.C.E. News Release

March 23, 2010

Illegal alien sentenced to nearly 6 years in prison for illegal reentry

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A criminal alien, who had been previously deported three times, was sentenced in federal court on Monday to more than five years in prison for illegally reentering the United States as a convicted felon. This sentence resulted from an investigation conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Crisantos Almazan-Ibenez, 36, was sentenced March 22 in the Western District of Kentucky to 69 months in federal prison for illegally reentering the U.S. after being previously deported as an aggravated felon.

Almazan-Ibenez pleaded guilty to illegally entering the United States without obtaining the required permission from the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. Records checks conducted by ICE revealed that Almazan-Ibenez had been previously deported on three occasions. He was last deported to Mexico in April 2004 after serving a prison sentence for a 1995 conviction for attempted second-degree murder. He was also convicted of trafficking in marijuana in 2000.

He will be deported again to Mexico after he completes his five years and nine months prison sentence for illegal reentry. Reentering the United States after being formally deported is a felony punishable by up to 20 years in prison.

"ICE will not tolerate those who show a blatant disregard for our nation's immigration laws," said Ricardo Wong, field office director of the ICE Office of Detention and Removal Operations in Chicago. "This significant prison sentence sends a strong message of deterrence to criminal aliens who think they can treat our borders like a revolving door."

Assistant U.S. Attorney Randy Ream, Western District of Kentucky, prosecuted this case.

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Last Modified: Wednesday, March 24, 2010
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http://www.ice.gov/pi/nr/1003/100323louisville.htm

This is a significant sentence? What a joke! And we pay to deport the guy again and he will be back here in 15 minutes.

Originally Posted by vortex

This is a significant sentence? . . .

Yes. 5 years and 9 months in prison is a pretty good sentence for re-entry.

Reentering the United States after being formally deported is a felony punishable by up to 20 years in prison.

I would have like the 20 years.

Back in the 80s they would just deport them again. Then the Federal Prosecutors in San Diego started prosecuting them for a misdemeanor and they would get 6 months for re-entry.

That didn't stop them so Federal Prosecutor Alan Bersin was the first Federal Prosecutor to prosecute illegal re-entry as a felony. That would get them at least a year. When that didn't stop them they increased it to a year and a half, 2 years, 3 years, etc. They just keep increasing it looking for the magic number that will stop them.

(Bersin is now nominated as Border Czar, but I don't think he has been approved yet.)

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"ICE will not tolerate those who show a blatant disregard for our nation's immigration laws,"

What a crock of...