Jose Luis Jimenez-Hernandez, a 45-year-old Mexican national living in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, was sentenced to time served for unlawful reentry into the United States. The sentencing was announced by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma.
Jimenez-Hernandez pleaded guilty on September 15, 2025. According to investigators from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement Division, he was found in the country on July 24, 2025, without permission from the Secretary of Homeland Security to reapply for admission after being previously removed three times: January 10, 2012; June 14, 2013; and October 25, 2013.
The case is part of Operation Take Back America. The initiative aims to use all resources of the Department of Justice to address illegal immigration and combat transnational criminal organizations.
“The charge arose from an investigation by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement Division.”
The sentencing hearing took place in Muskogee, Oklahoma. Judge Robert J. Shelby from the United States District Court for the District of Utah presided over the case by assignment. Assistant U.S. Attorney Erin Cornell represented the government during sentencing.
