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Date: 06-13-2022
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United States of America v. Alfredo Viveros-Chavez
Case Number: 21-CR-665
Judge: Matthew F. Kennelly
Court: United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (Cook County)
Plaintiff's Attorney: United States Attorney’s Office
Defendant's Attorney:
Description: Chicago, Illinois immigration lawyer represented Defendant charged with unlawful reentry of a noncitizen who lacked legal status.
Viveros-Chavez, a citizen of Mexico and not of the United States, has been removed from the United States twice in the past: once in March 2010, and again in September 2012. Nearly seven years later, in May 2019, he was convicted in Cook County for felony aggravated robbery. At the time of that conviction, Viveros-Chavez did not have citizenship or lawful immigration status in the United States.
On November 17, 2021, a grand jury returned an indictment against Viveros-Chavez charging him with unlawful reentry in violation of section 1326. In short, this statute makes it a crime for a noncitizen to reenter or to be found in the United States after one "has been denied admission, excluded, deported or removed" without obtaining advance consent from the appropriate U.S. government official. 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a).
Outcome: "The Court denies Viveros-Chavez's motion to dismiss the indictment.
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