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courts Men sleeping in car receive time served
BANGOR, Maine — Two Honduran men caught sleeping on March 19 in a car in a Lubec parking lot have been sentenced in U.S. District Court to time served.
Virgilio de Jesus Gonzalez-Garcia, 29, and Alex Martinez, 38, who had been held without bail since their arrests, are expected to be turned over to immigration authorities for deportation.
Both waived indictment and pleaded guilty in April to re-entry after deportation.
Information about what the men were doing in Maine and whose car they were sleeping in was not revealed in court documents.
Each man faced up to two years in federal prison and fines of up to $250,000. Under the prevailing federal sentencing guidelines, they faced between zero and six months in prison.
A Washington County sheriff’s deputy found the pair sleeping in a car parked outside a nursing home, according to court documents. The deputy called U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents because he suspected the men were in the country illegally.
A records check showed that Martinez was deported in 2003, but he told officials he returned about five years ago when he walked into the U.S. near McAllen, Texas.
Gonzalez-Garcia was deported in 2005 and said he returned on foot at Nogales a few years ago.
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WilliamDS,
Your shriveled up soul is showing.
Yes, thanks Bob, you got it!
Follow Etna's steps and get rid of these people.
More evidence that the Freedomphobes want to control every single aspect of our lives.
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I hope these Illegal Criminal Aliens have finally been DEPORTED. At least now Homeland Security has started to Prosecute the Employers of Illegal Aliens.
I don't get it: is it illegal to sleep in a car?
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Or is it because the people are illegals?
Coming across the desert on I-10 early, about 2:30am (several years ago) from Las Cruces, New Mexico into Houston, Texas, I was amazed at the influx and number of people crossing - or already had crossed - the US-Mexico border, just a few miles from the New Mexico and Texas border, with Immigration Stop-Check Stations just 5 miles away! Cars were stopping, trucks were stopping along both sides of the highway, picking up as many people as they could and drive away, cutting over the median grass strip and heading back into New Mexico.
There are "safe houses" in these parts to house these people. The federal government does not seem, even to this day and time, to be proactive enough to curtail this illegal immigration. Seems the US is shooting itself in their own foot. Just asking for problems is not the solution. Most of these people coming in are none the less criminals, the poorest-of-the-poor, unwanted's, searching for their families (mostly illegal, anyway) in the US, and whatever else sub-class they are from.
Why does the US allow such a problem, and then continue to conduct wartime activities in foreign countries where the US will not acquire land or gains in any way? Does this government not understand what is happening to the US? Part of the reason the US is in such a pitiful condition right now? I agree wholeheartedly with "Knightscross" that the US should prosecute employers for hiring illegals; and finally are doing it!