Border Jumper Gets Time Served, Sent Back

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BELGRADE, MT – Juan Diego Rojas-Meneses, 20, won’t be spending any more time in a cell, but he’s definitely leaving Montana. The Mexican national was sentenced today to the 219 days he’d already served and immediately turned over to U.S. Border Patrol agents.

Rojas-Meneses pleaded guilty to illegal reentry back in November after Belgrade police and federal agents raided a home where he was found. He admitted to being in the country without papers.

Turns out, this wasn’t his first time getting the boot. Records show Rojas-Meneses was deported twice through El Paso, Texas – September 1, 2024, and again on September 23, 2024. He never got permission to legally return.

Federal prosecutors, led by Assistant U.S. Attorney Zeno Baucus, handled the case, with assistance from the U.S. Border Patrol, Homeland Security Investigations, Belgrade PD, and the Montana Division of Criminal Investigations.

The feds are framing this as part of “Operation Take Back America,” a broad-stroke initiative aimed at tackling illegal immigration and dismantling cartels, but at the street level, it’s a simple story: busted for being back where he wasn’t supposed to be.