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

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

Jose Colis-Salas, age 28, from Mexico, received the prison term after a June 26, 2015, guilty plea to one count of illegal re-entry of a removed alien.

At the guilty plea, Colis-Salas admitted he illegally re-entered the United States after being deported on April 5, 2013.   Colis-Salas came to the attention of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials on April 10, 2015, when he was arrested in Clay County, Iowa for failure to appear on charges of identity theft and tampering with records.

Colis-Salas was sentenced in Sioux City by United States District Court Judge Mark W. Bennett.  Colis-Salas was sentenced to three 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-4040.

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