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.

[mrmeyer]

Voter fraud should be a capital offense. Sacred vote my ass.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Fraudulently documented foreigners need to ALL be removed.

No matter how long they have been breaking our laws.

[Lurkinanloomin]

This one cost so much because it was genuine.
He was using someone else’s identity.

[kearnyirish2]

Probably - but we’re supposed to believe charging a couple of thousand in fees for citizenship will break these braceros...

[kearnyirish2]

If he is being deported immediately (and will be kept out) then I’m OK with letting him go. I don’t want to provide more room and board for him - we probably already do for his brood.

[HotKat]

What’s up with this term “national?” He’s a Mexican citizen pretending to be an American.

[Western Phil]

An interesting quote from the News-Gazette article linked in reference:
“In exchange for his plea last year, more-serious charges of aggravated identity theft were dismissed against Valencia-Sandoval. His attorneys said after the sentencing Friday that they don’t believe that a Ramiro Vasquez ever existed and contended that a Texas woman who gave birth in 1971 obtained two birth certificates, one for a real child and another as a sham, and the phony birth certificate is the one that Valencia-Sandoval bought.”

[Mastador1]

Well that will send a message to all the other illegals won’t it. The judges that issue these kind of sentences for serious offenses need to be removed..........or horsewhipped and removed.

[zeestephen]

$50,000 for a fake birth certificate?

If the guy could figure out how to scratch up $50K in a foreign country, he doesn’t NEED a birth certificate.

[unlearner]

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

No one should be anyone’s sex slave.

That’s disgusting and a wish that is unbecoming of a conservative.

Only sick monsters could take any pleasure from enslaving someone for sex. And our criminal justice system should not be in the business of creating such monsters nor rewarding those that exist by feeding their deviancy.

Even those who rape and enslave others for sex should not become sex slaves. They should simply be executed.

Everyone is going to answer to God and receive the full reward for their deeds. In this life we can only mete out a small sample of coming justice.

[ConservativeMind]

I believe a three-fold worse punishment fits the crime.

You pick what that is, then.

[SaveFerris]

You are very wise

[SaveFerris]

VERY nice catch - I’ll be pinging others - some again

[SaveFerris]

Yes, he had to be a drug mule - a plant; an operative I’d guess.

At a minimum.

I’m sure the Lying Kenyan Manchurian Candidate was groomed for some period of time — there was a reference to him showing up somewhere - before he was even an Illinois Senator - like he had “help”.

[Cobra64]

Deported? Only to come back and do it again? The solution is a public execution by firing squad. THEN this crap might stop.

[Cobra64]

Why feed and house a criminal? A US prison is probably a better life than where they came from.

[Pollster1]

Disgusting. Criminals who vote illegally in our elections should be locked up for at least ten years and then deported with no legal opportunity to return ever. Vote fraud is one of the worst crimes imaginable and deserves the highest penalty possible.

[posterchild]

Why feed and house a criminal?

So the US does not become known as the place where one can go to commit crimes and merely get sent home.

[GailA]

btt