El Salvador National Sentenced for Illegal Reentry

U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that RAMON ANTONIO SORIANO-CANIZALEZ, age 28, a citizen of El Salvador, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to a one-count Indictment charging him with illegal reentry into the United States after having been previously deported.

U.S. District Judge Ivan L.R. Lemelle sentenced SORIANO-CANIZALEZ to time served.  SORIANO-CANIZALEZ will be surrendered to the custody of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for removal proceedings.

According to the court documents, SORIANO-CANIZALEZ was encountered by Border Patrol agents in the Eastern District of Louisiana on April 29, 2015, after records showed he had been previously deported from the United States to El Salvador on July 26, 2010.

U.S. Polite praised the work of the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Border Patrol for investigating this matter.  Assistant U.S. Attorney Emily K. Greenfield was in charge of the prosecution.