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by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

SDNY COURTHOUSE, Sept 4 – A woman from Panama who illegally re-entered the United States in El Paso in June 2024 came to plead guilty to that as a misdemeanor on September 5, 2025 - before U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Chief Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn. Inner City Press was there.

Judge Netburn began the proceeding by saying there should not have been so many last minute filings. It's that Pre Trial Services does not view it as its job to produce reports in such cases, nor Probation.

Judge Netburn said she got the RAP sheet and Jeniza Graciela Ardines James had pled guilty after petit larceny charges. The Federal Defender added that she has been in the MDC Brooklyn jail for two weeks.

The Federal Defender proposed at five or ten dollar fine. After Judge Netburn suggested one year probation, the AUSA said this might result in a slew of re-enters being transported back to SDNY on parole violations.

Judge Netburn noted that and imposed a $25 dollar fine. Ardines James was taken back into the holding cell.

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