Salvadoran Citizen Sentenced to 21 Months for Illegal Re-entry

ALBANY, NEW YORK – Efrain Diaz Alachan, age 46, and a citizen of El Salvador, was sentenced today to 21 months in prison, for illegal re-entry into the United States.

The announcement was made by United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith and Thomas E. Feeley, Director of the Buffalo Field Office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO).

As part of his guilty plea entered on February 12, 2019,  Diaz Alachan admitted that he was removed from the United States to El Salvador five times, the most recent removal date being March 15, 2016.  Diaz Alachan admitted that he returned to the United States following the removals without the necessary government permission. 

On December 18, 2018, ICE Officers arrested Diaz Alachan at his residence in Schenectady, New York. 

Diaz Alachan was previously convicted of this same offense, re-entry of a removed alien, in the Northern District of New York in 2011 and 2013, and in the Southern District of Texas in 2015.      

This case was investigated by ICE-ERO and prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Edward P. Grogan.