Madison, Wisconsin.. An immigrant was allegedly arrested after being helped by a judge in Wisconsin Dodge federal agents He was sentenced to time served for illegally reentering the United States.
U.S. District Judge Pamela Pepper sentenced 31-year-old Eduardo Flores Ruiz on Wednesday in Milwaukee after he reached an agreement with prosecutors not to contest deportation. Flores Ruiz has spent nearly seven months in prison since his arrest in April. Bieber warned him that he would face harsher penalties if he returned to the country.
“I very much hope that you find a way to make a living back home instead of coming back here,” she told Flores Ruiz.
Speaking through an interpreter, Flores Ruiz apologized for entering the United States, said he was grateful to have had the opportunity to work in the country and promised never to return.
According to a filing note from Flores Ruiz’s attorney, he grew up near Michoacán, Mexico, and worked as a fisherman and frog catcher with his father. Frog legs are considered a delicacy in the region, according to the memo.
He decided to make a better life for himself and crossed to the United States from Nogales, Mexico in 2013 when he was 18 years old. The group of migrants he joined were arrested and deported immediately after crossing the border.
A few days later, he returned to the country and got lost in the Arizona desert for a month before finding transportation to Milwaukee to join his relatives there. He spent about 12 years working in a series of restaurants and food trucks.
Prosecutors in March charged him with three misdemeanor counts after he got into a fight with his roommate. U.S. immigration agents learned he was in the country illegally after the Milwaukee County Jail submitted his fingerprints to federal databases, according to court documents.
Agents traveled to the district court on April 18, planning to arrest Flores-Ruiz when he appeared for a hearing. Judge Hannah DugganShe, who presided over the case, learned that agents were in the building looking for Flores-Ruiz and ushered him out of the courtroom through a door normally used only by deputies, jurors, court staff and defendants in custody, according to an FBI affidavit.
Agents arrested Flores-Ruiz after a foot chase and Duggan was arrested in court a week later. She was indicted by a federal grand jury last May on charges of obstructing and concealing a person to prevent arrest. Her trial is scheduled to begin on December 15 He denied any wrongdoing.
Duggan’s arrest and indictment exacerbated the clash between President Donald Trump’s administration and local authorities over the Republicans’ sweeping crackdown on immigration. Democrats accused the administration of trying to make an example of Duggan to suppress judicial dissent.
Federal prosecutors charged Flores Ruiz with illegally reentering the country five days after he was arrested outside a courtroom. He spent nearly seven months in the Ozaukee County Jail awaiting immigration.
he plead guilty In September, she was charged federally and agreed not to fight deportation in a deal with federal prosecutors. In return, they agreed to recommend a prison sentence. The imprisonment could have been up to two years.
Prosecutors dropped two of the three battery charges against him in October after he agreed to plead no contest to the third charge. He was sentenced to time served in this case as well.
Flores Ruiz is currently being held in the Dodge County Jail in Juneau, Wisconsin, awaiting deportation, Martin Pruhs, Flores Ruiz’s attorney in the federal case, said in an email to The Associated Press on Thursday. Brohs declined to comment beyond what he wrote in his memorandum.