Anyone who has had their identity stolen can tell
you, its hell getting one’s life back.
So, when a criminal is caught, you’d expect the full force of the law to
come down on him. After all, this isn’t
stealing a candy bar from a store. This
scumbag stole a person’s life. Well, if the perpetrator was an ordinary
American citizen, we could expect justice.
If he is an illegal alien he gets this:
“Alegria-Garcia,
a citizen of El Salvador, has been in the United States illegally since the
early 1980s,” says a statement published by
the Office of Inspector General of the Social Security Administration.
The OIG statement was headlined:
"Illegal Alien Sentenced to 29 Months in Prison for Identity Theft."
“United States Court Judge Sharon L.
Gleason sentenced Alegria-Garcia to the five months imprisonment he has already
served on the Social Security number and false citizenship charges, and also
imposed a mandatory two-year consecutive term for aggravated identity theft,”
said the statement.
“In imposing the sentence, Judge Gleason
mentioned the impact on the victim, as well as the defendant’s long criminal
record spanning more than 30 years,” said the statement. “The victim, a U.S.
national living in New York, stated that he found it difficult to obtain the
benefits he was entitled to through Social Security because government records
indicated that he was working in Alaska. In fact, Alegria-Garcia was working in
Alaska, having stolen the victim’s identity.”
Although
Alegria-Garcia had been “in the United States illegally since the early 1980s,”
according to the statement published
by the Social Security Administration OIG, he was arrested in
late 2014, according to a press release put out
by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
“Alegria-Garcias was arrested in November
2014 and charged with unlawful use of a Social Security number, making a false
claim of United States citizenship and aggravated identity theft in connection
with an application for unemployment benefits from the state of Alaska,” said
the ICE press release.
“Jose Alegria-Garcia, 56, admitted in a
January plea agreement to knowingly using the identity of a U.S. citizen to
obtain benefits from the state of Alaska,” said the ICE press release.
“According to court records Alegria-Garcia’s victim, a New York man, discovered
his identity had been stolen when he found it difficult to obtain the benefits
he was entitled to through Social Security because government records indicated
he was working in Alaska.”
Two years plus time served? Where is the justice in that?
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