US man faces 4 months in prison for bribing ICE agent to deport wife
Antonio Burgos offered the ICE agent $3,000 to deport his estranged wife and her child to El Salvador.
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Your support makes all the difference.A man from Portland, Oregon, has been sentenced to four months in prison for his plot to try and bribe an ICE agent to deport his wife and step-child.
Antonio Burgos, 48, was dealing with a failing marriage and divorce proceedings when he first approached an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent near the Oregon-Washington border in May of 2018.
Burgos offered the agent $3,000 to deport his wife and her child from a previous relationship to their home country of El Salvador.
Rather than accept the bribe, the ICE agent reported Burgos’s request to the Office of Professional Responsibility.
The OPR then initiated a sting operation with the help of the Department of Homeland Security, according to ABC News.
The OPR recorded two conversations where Burgos offered to pay the agent $3,000, and then set up a meeting at a predetermined location in June. At this meeting, Burgos raised his offer to $4,000.
23 days after the meeting, Burgos was arrested.
Burgos was charged with and pleaded guilty to one count of bribery to a public official. After his four month prison stint, Burgos will serve three years of supervised release.
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