Man Sentenced to Five Months Prison For Re-Entering the United States from Mexico

The following press release was published by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys on Oct. 28, 2015. It is reproduced in full below.

A man who illegally re-entered the country was sentenced on Oct. 20, 2015, to five months in federal prison.

Juan Barajas-Silvia, age 30, from Mexico, received the prison term after an Aug. 12, 2015, guilty plea to one count of illegal re-entry of a removed alien.

At the guilty plea, Barajas-Silvia admitted he illegally re-entered the United States after being deported on June 13, 2008. Barajas-Silvia came to the attention of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials on June 19, 2015, when he was arrested in Sioux County, Iowa for harassment.

Barajas-Silvia was sentenced in Sioux City by United States District Court Judge Mark W. Bennett. Barajas-Silvia was sentenced to five months imprisonment. He must serve a 1-year term of supervised release. There is no parole in the federal system.

The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Kevin C. Fletcher and investigated by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Enforcement and Removal Office of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Bureau.

Court file information is available at https://ecf.iand.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/login.pl. The case file number is 15-CR-4045.

Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys