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Criminal illegal alien sentenced for reentry into U.S. after deportationArticle

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Release details

Date published

2026-07-17

Issuing DOJ office / component

USAO - Kansas

Topic / offense category

Immigration

Publisher

U.S. Department of Justice

Official source (justice.gov)

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ks/pr/criminal-illegal-alien-sentenced-reentry-us-after-deportation

Full text (as published by the DOJ)

TOPEKA, KAN. – An illegal alien from Honduras was sentenced to 24 months in prison for returning to the United States after previously being deported. According to court documents, Jose Alfredo Galiano-Meza, 33, pleaded guilty to one count of reentry of a removed alien.Galiano-Meza will be transferred to federal prison after he completes a sentence he is currently serving in the Kansas Department of Corrections. In November 2022, Galiano-Meza was sentenced in Kansas state court to 68 months of incarceration following a fatal automobile accident in Lawrence. “Mr.

Galiano-Meza was deported in 2013 and again in 2018. That was years before his arrest for causing a crash that killed a child,” said U.S. Attorney Ryan A. Kriegshauser.

“If the U.S. government deports someone, that person is committing a federal crime and a felony by returning to our country without permission from the government.” Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) investigated the case.###

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Criminal illegal alien sentenced for reentry into U.S. after deportation. U.S. Department of Justice, 2026-07-17. Reproduced by ProofAML as an enforcement-matter document record. Official source: https://www.justice.gov/usao-ks/pr/criminal-illegal-alien-sentenced-reentry-us-after-deportation. URL: https://proofaml.com/articles/criminal-illegal-alien-sentenced-for-reentry-into-u-s-after-deportation-doj3bdbd8627a00/

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