Deported Repeatedly, Man Is Sentenced to 35 Years for Attacks on 2 Oregon Women
An undocumented immigrant from Mexico who had been deported 20 times and had been arrested for various offenses was sentenced to 35 years in prison on Friday after pleading guilty to brutally assaulting two women in Oregon on the same day in July.
The case was one of several that drew the attention of the Trump administration as it has tried to crack down on and deport undocumented immigrants.
Federal officials have held up immigrants like the man involved, Sergio Jose Martinez, as examples of undocumented people who must be expelled from the country, but who have instead been allowed to roam free thanks to so-called sanctuary cities.
The sentencing came one day after another undocumented immigrant, Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, who had previously been deported repeatedly, was acquitted of murder, manslaughter and assault charges related to the fatal shooting of Kathryn Steinle, who was killed while walking on a San Francisco pier.
(He was convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm.)
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