Guatemalan Citizen Sentenced for Fourth Illegal Re-entry into the United States

SYRACUSE, NEW YORK – German Vasquez-Domingo, age 37, of Guatemala, was sentenced yesterday to serve one year and one day imprisonment for illegally reentering the United States.

United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman, Thomas P. Brophy, Field Office Director, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Enforcement and Removal Operations (ICE-ERO) Buffalo, NY, and Sharon B. MacDermott, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Social Security Administration, Office of the Inspector General, New York Field Office, made the announcement.

As part of his guilty plea, Vasquez-Domingo admitted that despite being deported back to Guatemala, he illegally reentered the United States again sometime prior to June 2022. Chief United States District Judge Brenda K. Sannes imposed the sentence based, in part, on the fact that this offense constituted Vasquez-Domingo’s fourth illegal reentry into the United States.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Enforcement and Removal Operations, and the U.S. Social Security Administration, Office of the Inspector General investigated the case. Assistant U.S. Attorney Jessica N. Carbone prosecuted the case.