Twice-Deported Mexican National Sentenced for Illegal Reentry

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A Mexican national has been sentenced for illegally reentering the United States.

Jaime Flores-Ortega, 31, pleaded guilty to unlawful reentry after deportation for an aggravated felony and was sentenced to 26 months’ imprisonment by Senior U.S. District Judge Howard Sachs on Aug. 5, 2025.

According to court documents, on Oct. 26, 2024, Flores-Ortega was arrested by the Kansas City police for leaving the scene of an accident in Kansas City, Mo. Flores-Ortega was subsequently identified as an alien unlawfully present in the U.S. who had been previously removed twice to Mexico.  In Oct. 2016, Flores-Ortega was convicted in the Western District of Missouri for being an alien in possession of a firearm.  He was subsequently deported from the United States in 2017.

This case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Rudolph R. Rhodes IV. It was investigated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), Chicago Field Office, Kansas City Sub-Office.

Operation Take Back America

This case is part of Operation Take Back America, 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).