Some migrants deported from us under Trump have already returned

The Trump administration’s force show against the people of the US illegally did not stop some to return.
At least 19 people deported on the days after Trump took over the position made a quick return to Arizona.
What is not known is how many deported the authorities have returned and circumvented.

President Donald Trump illegally presented rapid deportations by people who were illegally in the United States after taking over. Some of those migrants return as quickly.

At least 19 people deported in the days after Trump took over a quick return to Arizona, crossing back to the country that kicked them out and were arrested again.

In a case, immigration officials deported a Mexican man through the border town in Arizona, Douglas, on February 1.

At that time, Trump officials were advertising their harsh actions on the border. Immigration and customs application have removed a daily number of arrested persons. Even Dr. Phil McGraw from television scored on an immigration attack.

But the force show did not discourage Miguel Angel Rodriguez-Bravo, 48, 48 years old.

Less than two weeks after his deportation, he went to the United States again, stirring through the desert near Douglas, according to the judicial documents.

On February 13, one day after crossing, he was arrested by the border patrol near Arizona City, a small community about 180 miles north of the border.

The other cases of his and his, because they were confronted with the federal pursuit after they were caught again. What is not known is how many deported the authorities have returned and circumvented.

Rodriguez-Bravo stood in front of a federal judge in a courtroom in the center of Phoenix, March 5th. He wore an orange jumpsuit, handcuffs and iron.

He reached an agreement with the prosecutors: he would be guilty for the criminal offense of entering the country illegally, and the prosecutors would give up the accusation of re-entry after a deportation.

Legally, it was as if that first deportation had never happened.

It also meant that the case will have a quick end and will not take more time for prosecutors.

The magistrate judge Alison Bachus, in pronouncing his sentence, asked Rodriguez-Bravo to stay in Mexico. She told him that the guilty plea has already hurt his chances of ever requesting legal entry into the United States. She said that the court understood that some people illegally cross the border to improve their lives and suggested to make “adjustments” so that they can stay in its country.

“I strongly encourage you not to re -enter without authorization,” she told her. Her words were translated into Spanish for its benefit. “If you come back,” she said, “then you probably look for more time.”

Bachus sentenced him to 30 days in arrest. He is scheduled to be released in Mexico in mid -March.

After deportation, “people can always try again” to return to us

Those who worked or studied the nation’s immigration system said it is not a surprise to see those recently deported to try to return illegally.

“People believe that deportation is the end of the story,” said Austin Kocher, professor at Syracuse University, who has studied immigration statistics in the last decade. “Deportation is not the end of nothing. People can always try again. “

Kocher said that most people who return after a deportation do this for work or family and that policy changes in the United States would only affect the decision to pass again.

“If the motivation that comes is to be reunited with the family,” he said, “I don’t think Trump’s policies fundamentally changes people’s cost analysis.”

Over 11,000 people per year were convicted of re -entering the country after a deportation from 2018 to 2023, According to the statistics kept by the Committee on the United States.

In fiscal year 2023, the latest available figures, 12,869 persons were convicted of re-entering the crimes, according to the numbers posted on the commission’s website.

This has been a slight increase over the last two years, but smaller than the 22,076 people in 2019.

The overwhelming number – more than 97% – were Hispanic men, according to the Commission. There were no information about the countries where men come from.

In Arizona, 2,602 persons were convicted of re -entering the offenses in fiscal year 2023. These cases constituted more than half of all cases pursued in the court of district in Arizona, the largest in the country, the Commission said.

“It is worth trying to cross”

Such cases persisted in the first weeks of Trump’s second term.

Four men and an 18 -year -old woman deported separately from February 26 and 2 were arrested by Glendale border patrol on February 6, according to judicial documents. It was not clear if they were detained at the same time. A spokesman for the border patrol did not provide details about their detention.

Three of those arrested were deported through El Paso, one through Nogales and fifth through Douglas.

They all returned to the US through Douglas a few days before their arrest shows the records.

Each one agreed to plead guilty of the illegal entry of crimes. Instead, the Government has given up the charge of re -entering offense after a deportation.

It was the same business at seven out of 19 cases in which a person returned after a deportation in the second Trump era.

“I wish you to travel safely at home to your loved ones,” said Judge Eileen Willett on March 11, after sentenced Jacquelin Moreno-Oortiz, 18 years old, aged and Rigoberto Montiel-Lobato, 24 years old.

Each one was convicted of the period in which they served in arrest and were handed over for a second deportation.

Another case showed a failed re -entry attempt by a man who was caught by the border patrol at the end of February.

One week after he was deported through Nogales, the man presented to the entrance port in San Luis with a false passport.

Joe Duarte, a private lawyer who worked as a public defender in the 2005 federal court, said that the motivation for the return migrants is largely that their job or family are sometimes in the US, he said, it is both.

“They are separated from their families,” he said. “It must be next to and around the children.”

During the Phoenix court hearings, the judges recognized the family members who presented themselves to support their relative. A family filled two rows of benches of the gallery.

Duarte also saw cases in which someone who was deported passes back to see an elderly relative last time.

“It is worth trying to cross,” Duarte said.

Migrants returning to us after deportation in previous years

The 19 cases represent migrants who persisted in returning even after a deportation since Trump has taken over.

Another group of at least 23 migrants who were deported in previous years crossed the border after Trump has taken over, according to the judicial cases submitted to the US District Court.

A man was deported in April 2016, according to judicial documents. Another one was as recently as December 2024.

It is assumed that the penalties for repeated re -entry will increase, in accordance with the conviction guidelines, which are intended to serve as a discouragement element.

At the same time, the border patrol officials illegally added additional impediments to the passing to the United States.

Trump forgot to fortify the border, sending troops, adding surveillance equipment and installing shaving wire to the tip of the existing border wall.

The delays along the border decreased, according to the statistics published by the border patrol officials.

During a visit to the border with Mexico in Eagle Pass, Texas, on March 5, JD Vance Vice President cited a 98% discount on the crossings and said that border patrol agents told him that Crossings had dropped to 30 per day, rather than 1,500. Vance did not clarify what periods of time compared, but said that the lower number came because Trump took over.

At the beginning of March, a man who returned after a deportation was in front of a judge. He pleaded guilty for a number of offenses of illegal re -entry in exchange for the government that gave up the charge of re -entering the crime.

The judge assured that the man, Luis Alfonso Fierro-Rocha, understood the stakes: that his guilty plea would harm any chance to win legal status in the United States. And that penalties could increase if they were caught again.

The man said he understood.

The judicial documents show that Fierro-Rocha was deported from the US to Nogales in November 2014. He told the authorities that he returned to the United States in April 2021. He was arrested on February 12 by the Security Agents of the Security Department that supervised him on the basis of what the judicial documents called “I immigration.

His cousin who participated in the hearing, Marcos Rocha, said that he is not sure how his relative came to the attention of the immigration authorities. He said that his cousin was stopped on the way to work.

Rocha, who heard that the judge advises his cousin about the possible punishments if he is caught again, said he thinks that his cousin will remain in Mexico.

“It’s not worth it,” he said.