A Guatemalan national has been sentenced to seven months in federal prison for illegally reentering the United States after previously being removed. The sentencing took place on August 6, 2025, in Jackson, Mississippi.
Court records show that Felino Fernando Perez-Jimenez, 25, was arrested by the Carthage Police Department on January 11, 2025. He faced charges including simple assault, resisting arrest, public intoxication, and failure to comply with an officer. The following day, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) identified him at the Leake County Jail as a citizen of Guatemala without valid immigration documents. Authorities determined that Perez-Jimenez had been deported from the United States in 2023.
Perez-Jimenez was indicted by a federal grand jury on February 4, 2025. He pleaded guilty to the charge of illegal reentry on May 2, 2025.
“Acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi, Patrick A. Lemon; Eric P. DeLaune, Special Agent-in-Charge for Homeland Security Investigations in New Orleans, Louisiana; and Brian Acuna, Acting Field Office Director of ICE/ERO in New Orleans, made the announcement.”
The prosecution was handled by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Matthew Wade Allen and Kimberly T. Purdie.
Homeland Security Investigations led the investigation as part of Operation Take Back America (https://www.justice.gov/dag/media/1393746/dl?inline), which is a nationwide effort using resources from multiple Department of Justice programs to address illegal immigration and related criminal activity.
