Two Foreign Nationals Sentenced in July for Illegally Reentering the United States After Deportation

PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney David Metcalf announced that two foreign nationals convicted separately of illegally reentering the United States after prior deportations were sentenced this month.

Rene Vasquez-Ladino, 53, a Guatemalan national, was sentenced by United States District Judge Joshua D. Wolson to 15 months in prison and one year of supervised release for illegal reentry. Upon completing his prison sentence, he will be removed from the United States again.

Vasquez-Ladino had previously been removed from the U.S. in May 2015, on the orders of an immigration judge. In September of the same year, the U.S. Border Patrol encountered the defendant in Texas. He was charged with illegal reentry in the Southern District of Texas, pleaded guilty, and was removed from the country that November, after completing a 60-day prison sentence.

In September 2019, Vasquez-Ladino was arrested by the New York State Police for driving while intoxicated, then released and ordered to appear before the Yonkers City Court. He failed to appear and a bench warrant was issued for his arrest.

In March 2025, Immigration and Customs Enforcement ("ICE") learned that the defendant was serving a prison sentence for his conviction on firearms offenses in the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas. In January of this year, Vasquez-Ladino was charged by federal indictment with illegal reentry, and he pleaded guilty in March.

Walter Eduardo Enriquez-Arzaga, 29, a Mexican national, was sentenced by United States District Judge Karen Spencer Marston to time served, approximately five and a half months, for illegal reentry. Having completed his sentence, he will be removed from the United States again.

The defendant had previously been removed from the U.S. three times: in September 2017, following his conviction on a local firearms offense in Texas, in February 2018, following his illegal reentry conviction in the District of New Mexico, and in March 2024, after an encounter with ICE in Iowa.

In February of this year, ICE learned that Enriquez-Arzaga was in police custody in Northampton County, Pa. He was charged by indictment with illegal reentry in March and pleaded guilty in June.

These cases are part of Operation Take Back America, a nationwide initiative that marshals the full resources of the Department of Justice to repel the invasion of illegal immigration, achieve the total elimination of cartels and transnational criminal organizations (TCOs), and protect our communities from the perpetrators of violent crime.

The cases were investigated by ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations and prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys Mark Dubnoff and Nicholas DiMarco.