Washington, DC (RI) — A man from Guatemala who illegally re-entered the United States after being deported twice has been sentenced to two years in federal prison.
Sioux City Police arrested 29-year-old Erasmo Roberto Mendez-Lopez last May for a second operating while intoxicated offense and for failing to appear on a Woodbury County warrant for a prior OWI charge. Prosecutors say he had active warrants from Plymouth County, too, for speeding and having an open container of alcohol in his vehicle. Iowa Congressman Randy Feenstra says Mendez-Lopez is the kind of prisoner who could wind up in Cuba at the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp.
Feenstra says President Trump is serious about cracking down on illegal immigration and that’s why the first bill Trump signed into law requires detention of illegal immigrants charged with murdering or seriously injuring someone. Those provisions are known as “Sarah’s Law” — written after Sarah Root of Council Bluffs was killed by a drunk driver who was in the country illegally, posted bond, and disappeared.
Feenstra says Trump’s America First agenda prioritizes Americans over criminal illegal immigrants.
