Guatemalan National Sentenced for Unlawful Reentry by a Removed Alien

JACKSON, MS – A Guatemalan national was sentenced on September 11, 2025 to 11 months of incarceration for unlawfully reentering the United States after being removed from the country. The defendant will be transferred to ICE custody following his release. 

According to court documents, Mateo Ramos-Perez, 32, was found by law enforcement officials to be unlawfully present in the country on or about June 25, 2025 in Scott County after having previously been convicted in federal court of misuse of a social security number and removed from the United States on November 8, 2012 and December 4, 2019.

Ramos-Perez was indicted by a federal grand jury on July 15, 2025 and pleaded guilty on September 11, 2025. 

Acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi, Patrick A. Lemon and Eric P. DeLaune, Special Agent-in-Charge for Homeland Security Investigations in New Orleans, Louisiana; and Brian Acuna, Acting Field Office Director of ICE/ERO in New Orleans, made the announcement.

Assistant U.S. Attorney C. Brett Grantham prosecuted the case.

This case was investigated by Homeland Security investigations as part of Operation Take Back America (https://www.justice.gov/dag/media/1393746/dl?inline) a nationwide initiative that marshals the full resources of the Department of Justice to repel the invasion of illegal immigration, achieve the total elimination of cartels and transnational criminal organizations (TCOs), and protect our communities from the perpetrators of violent crime. Operation Take Back America streamlines efforts and resources from the Department’s Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETFs) and Project Safe Neighborhood (PSN).