Wrist-slap sentence for Mexican national who voted for ten years using a fake birth certificate

American Thinker ^ | 1/22/18 | Thomas Lifson

[markomalley]

A Mexican national who bought a fake birth certificate for $50,000 and has been voting in American elections for a decade has been sentenced to time served – just over one year in the county jail.  Tom Kacich of the News-Gazette in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois reports:

A Mexican national who pleaded guilty last year to federal charges of voting illegally in U.S. elections and making a false statement in an application for a U.S. passport was sentenced Friday to time served, meaning that he could be released from custody any day.

But his attorneys, Tony and Evan Bruno, said it's unclear what will happen to 34-year-old Miguel Valencia-Sandoval, since he faces deportation back to Mexico by the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.

Valencia-Sandoval has been in custody for more than a year since he was arrested after attempting to re-enter the United States at Laredo, Texas[] in January 2017.  In his court appearance Friday, he was dressed in a gray striped jumpsuit from the Macon County Jail.

Before the arrest, he had lived in Urbana with his wife, Maria Ramirez, since 2005, raising three children, all of whom were born here.  He had held several jobs, even at one time owning and operating a Mexican restaurant while using the identity of a Texas man named Ramiro G. Vasquez.

Valencia-Sandoval admitted, according to a federal affidavit, that he was not the true owner of the Texas birth certificate for Ramiro Vasquez and that he had bought it for $50,000 in 2005.

[SaveFerris]

[ A Mexican national who bought a fake birth certificate for $50,000 ]

Fake birth certificate? Ooooh, we’re not supposed to talk about those.

Oops, I just did.

[Maceman]

Trump needs to publicly state that ANY alien immigrant who is caught voting in a U.S. election will be immediately deported.

[Pearls Before Swine]

I don’t know how to price these things. $50K seems like a lot for a fake document, though. Especially if it doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.

[posterchild]

That would be foolish. They should serve prison time first before being deported.

[Sarah Barracuda]

My spidey senses tells me that this guy did NOT vote Republican

[Electric Graffiti]

“A Mexican national who bought a fake birth certificate for $50,000”

That’s more effort than Obola put into it and he was ‘president’ for 8 years.

What a country...

[CMAC51]

Trump needs to publicly state that ANY alien immigrant who is caught voting in a U.S. election will be immediately deported...To Haiti.

There, I fixed it.

[cmj328]

Trump needs to publicly state that ANY alien immigrant who is caught voting in a U.S. election will be immediately hanged.

Fixed it for you.

[GingisK]

Be quiet! The Democrats will run him on the Presidential ticket.

[DaveA37]

“A Mexican national who bought a fake birth certificate for $50,000”.....

Where did that “beaner” get $50,000, selling drugs?

[Revel]

He was obviously sentenced by a liberal judge. He should have got a lot more time than he did.

[ConservativeMind]

They should be placed in a prison cell and be someone’s sex slave, then be deported.

[Kozy]

What did Obama pay for his?

[onedoug]

I wonder how much the fraud soebarkah paid for his.

[DMZFrank]

Why should he get any punishment at all? We just let a non-natural born citizen usurper with a counterfeit birth certificate occupy the White Hut for 8 years.

Hell, innumerable court cases were denied certiorari without even allowing a competent court to examine the issue of Obama’s eligibility with regard to Article II, Sec. 1 clause 5 on the merits, despite such a case never having been directly decided by the SCOTUS before. The only response was none, denied, or ridicule.

[C210N]

What did Obama pay for his?

I'm sure he had some help.

[Nifster]

So nice that Comey and Lynch charged him with felonies..../s

[Dogbert41]

“Trump needs to publicly state that ANY alien immigrant who is caught voting in a U.S. election will be immediately deported.”

Unfortunately Congress has to create a bill to do that. But it should be forfeiture of all property and money, 10 years hard labor painting and upkeep on the new wall, and then deportation and lifetime ban on entry to the United States, with double the penalty for anyone harboring them.

[TXnMA]

"Valencia-Sandoval admitted, according to a federal affidavit, that he was not the true owner of the Texas birth certificate for Ramiro Vasquez and that he had bought it for $50,000 in 2005.

More than likely he bought a more valid BC than that trash PDF that 0b0z0, the Kenyan Muslim did...