Three undocumented workers from Lindon plant charged with illegally re-entering
Grace Leong

Three workers arrested during an immigration raid earlier this month at Universal Industrial Sales of Lindon were charged with illegally re-entering the country after being deported, according to federal criminal indictments returned by a grand jury on Wednesday.
The three workers, all Mexican nationals, face up to two years in federal prison if convicted.

Juan Carlos Ibanez-Tovar, 29, is charged with illegally re-entering the United States after he was deported on April 26, 2001. Alejandro Sanchez-Manjarez, 25, is charged with re-entering the country after he was deported on Sept. 22, 2006. Gerardo Reyes Montelongo-Martinez, 35, is charged with re-entering the United States after being deported on Dec. 21, 2002.

The three men were among 57 illegal workers arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on Feb. 7, which took out more than half of Universal’s 100-plus work force in Lindon. Of the 57 men arrested, 51 were immigrants from Mexico, two were from Argentina, two from Uruguay, one from El Salvador and one from Honduras, ICE officials said.

ICE referred 30 of those cases to the Utah County Attorney’s Office for criminal prosecution.

Universal, a maker of guard rails, bridge rails and signs, was charged with 10 criminal counts of harboring illegal immigrants, all of whom were employed between January 2003 and December 2006, according to an indictment filed on Jan. 23 by the U.S. Attorney’s Office. [b][color=red]A second indictment, charged Alejandro “Alexâ€