In an enforcement push that's as real as handcuffs around the wrists, four men have found themselves on the heavy end of the law's hammer for illegal reentry into the United States after deportation. U.S. Attorney David Metcalf announced the sentences, illuminating a judicial process aimed at clamping down on unauthorized migration.
Getting the shortest stint behind bars, 32-year-old Honduran national Kevin Emmanuel Rodriguez-Martinez was sentenced to time served, a little over two months, before facing another removal from the country. According to the U.S. Attorney's Office, Rodriguez-Martinez was previously deported twice after being nabbed by the Border Patrol in Texas. This latest chapter closed when HSI and ICE agents wrapped him up in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Next on the docket was Osman Guevara-Guevara, a 35-year-old from Honduras, who also received a time-served sentence of two and a half months. He, for his part, had a removal stamp on his passport dating back to 2012 with a reentry follow-up that quickly led to another deportation in 2013. However, Guevara-Guevara evidently returned, leading to his arrest by Pennsylvania police and subsequent June custody reassignment to ICE agents.
In a slightly heavier blow, Mexican national Jorge Miles, 30, took a hit of eight months in prison for his illegal reentry. He had a departure order stretching back to 2014 after a guilty plea in a robbery case. ICE officers followed the bread crumbs to his whereabouts after another arrest in Pennsylvania, leading to his April indictment and subsequent May guilty plea, the U.S. Attorney's Office highlighted.
Finally, Yobani Bonilla-Bonilla, or Gilberto Perez Alvarado if we're following the alias on his papers, a 40-year-old Honduran national, also received a sentence of times served nearing two months. HSI and DEA collaboration brought Bonilla-Bonilla to the Justice's doorstep with an active Honduran arrest warrant hot on his trail. He too will see the exit door of the U.S. swing shut behind him post-sentence.
