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Posted on 09/01/2006 4:36:33 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. -- An illegal immigrant who has been arrested previously on drug and firearms charges and deported seven times Friday pleaded not guilty to illegally re-entering the United States.
Felipe Garcia-Morales, 28, a citizen of Mexico, entered the plea and agreed to be represented by a federal public defender.
Chattanooga police arrested Garcia-Morales for driving without a license July 14. He is also charged with violating federal probation in a previous case in Arizona.
U.S. Magistrate Susan Lee, with the assistance of a Spanish-speaking interpreter, ordered Garcia-Morales held without bond pending an Oct. 31 trial.
Records show Garcia-Morales was most recently deported March 3 to Mexico and previously forced to leave the United States on Sept. 27, 2004; April 15, 2004; Dec. 31, 2003; Oct. 4, 2003 and July 29, 2003. He was voluntarily deported Aug. 23, 2000.
Records show Garcia-Morales was convicted in September 2005 in Arizona on an illegal re-entry charge and sentenced to eight months in prison.
A year earlier he was arrested driving a 1989 Lincoln "loaded with concealed (smuggled) aliens" on Interstate 10 near Picaco, Ariz., records show.
"The defendant was suspected of being the actual alien smuggler in this case. Prosecution was declined on this matter by the U.S. Attorney's Office for alien smuggling charges and the defendant was ordered deported to Mexico," according to records.
Records also show Garcia-Morales was convicted of misdemeanor drug possession in Las Vegas in February 2000 and sentenced to 45 days as part of a plea agreement after he was charged with possession of cocaine with intent to sell, possession of an unregistered firearm and drawing a deadly weapon in a threatening manner.
Assistant U.S. Attorney James Brooks said at the Friday hearing that if Garcia-Morales is convicted, the maximum possible penalty is 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said the Chattanooga office in 2006 has processed about 110 illegal immigrants for deportation.
There are more than 500,000 "fugitive aliens" who have been deported by judges and either slipped back into the country or never left.
About 11 million illegal immigrants were living in the U.S. at the start of this year, compared with an estimated 8.5 million living in the country in January 2000, Homeland Security records show.
I say we let him stay...for the next 15-20 years in a maximum security prison.
Catch and Release program is working mighty fine, huh?
If they turn him loose again (apparently highly likely) and he murders some folks, will that do it?
And if you're involved in turning him loose again, how will you live with yourself?
It appears you have to send them home in a box.
Not guilty? Does he claim that he was arrested in Mexico and brought here for trial? Defense attorneys ought to have to at least claim there is a reason why the person is not guilty.
He's in the country again and has been previously reported 7 times, but please remember this man is innocent until proven guilty.
hey , he's only doing the jobs that us americans are too fat and lazy to do, you know, robbing, stealing, raping. Just ask fatass kennedy,these people are the salt of the earth.
You'd figure that he would have learned English by now, seeing as he's spent so much time here.
He must not be a very good coyote. If he were, he could hire his own lawyer & not need a public defender.
Assuming he had a job besides being a coyote, I missed the part where the American company that hired him was fined and maybe their executives jailed......Must be an editing error.
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Probably be plea bargained down to a misdemeanor traffic ticket.
-Take his Mexican & his fake US ID & drivers licenses.
-Issue him a Guatemalan ID.
-Deport him to Guatemala.
Mexican cops shot people who try to sneak into their country past their southern border........
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Maybe a public whipping will do the trick?
If any one of us had been smuggling illegals, drawing an unregistered firearm, selling cocaine, etc. we would be in prison for 40 years.
Next time I get arrested I'm going to say my name is Juan Gomez.
Great idea. Donate a dollar to Guatemala to allow us to drop tens of thousands, they get serviced by their own country and everyone is happy.
Fly him to CA....we will take him.
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