A Guatemalan national has admitted guilt in a U.S. District Court in Portland for reentering the United States following a prior removal. Jorge Martinez-Urizar, 50, was found to have entered the country illegally after being deported on three previous occasions.
Court records indicate that an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent discovered in November 2024 that Martinez-Urizar had been removed from the United States most recently in July 2005. At that time, he had not submitted any applications or petitions allowing him lawful reentry or residence. His removal followed a 70-month prison sentence served in Oregon for a 1999 conviction of second-degree assault and unlawful use of a weapon.
Martinez-Urizar now faces up to 20 years in prison and a possible fine of $250,000.
The investigation was conducted by ICE.