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U.S. deports man in passport scheme

Published July 12, 2005


CHICAGO -- Immigration and Customs officials deported an Ecuadorian man Monday who was convicted of smuggling hundreds of children into the country in a passport scheme.

Henry Bolivar Rendon-Arizaga, 28, of Chicago was part of a scheme that charged illegal immigrants fees of $12,000 to $14,000 for fake passports with the immigrants' pictures on them.

He pleaded guilty in January to providing the photographs of South Americans who wanted the passports.

A number of U.S. citizens participated in the scheme by applying for legitimate passports, then handing them over to be altered, prosecutors charged.

Rendon-Arizaga received 12 months in prison and has been in federal custody since his arrest in July 2004.