Twice Deported Mexican Human Smuggler Sentenced to 46 Months in Federal Prison

MISSION, TX - APRIL 11: A U.S. Border Patrol agent handcuffs an undocumented immigrant near the U.S.-Mexico border on April 11, 2013 near Mission, Texas. A group of 16 immigrants from Mexico and El Salvador said they crossed the Rio Grande River from Mexico into Texas during the morning hours …
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A federal court in New York sentenced a twice-deported Mexican national to 46 months in prison for human smuggling and illegal re-entry into the United States. The criminal alien previously served a sentence of six years in a Texas prison for aggravated cocaine smuggling.

Senior U.S. District Court Judge Lawrence E. Kahn sentenced Ruben Altunar-Lopez, a/k/a “Hervin Lopez-Javier,” a 49-year-old Mexican national who was residing in Indiana, to 46 months in federal prison. The sentence followed Altunar-Lopez’s guilty plea earlier this year. The twice-deported illegal alien pleaded guilty to illegal re-entry after removal following a felony conviction and transportation of aliens, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of New York.

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Altunar-Lopez admitted that in the early morning of February 19, 2023, he picked up four aliens in the area of Mooers, New York, in his pickup truck, knowing that they did not have authorization to be in the United States, DOJ officials stated. Prosecutors stated he was going to transport the migrants to other states, including Indiana.

In addition to his previous conviction in Texas for cocaine smuggling, the U.S. District Court for the State of Arizona also convicted the Mexican national for illegal re-entry after removal with felony convictions. He is still serving a term of supervised release.

Swanton Sector Chief Patrol Agent Robert Garcia posted on X that Altunar-Lopez led agents on a high-speed pursuit during this smuggling incident that took place in February.

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Authored by Bob Price via Breitbart December 19th 2023