NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 8 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued the following news release:

This illegal alien had been deported TWICE before

WASHINGTON - The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released the following statement after an investigation by the Homeland Security Task Force (HSTF), led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), resulted in the sentencing of an illegal alien who had been convicted on drug trafficking charges.

On October 1, Jose Luis Mata-Cedillo, an illegal alien from Mexico, was sentenced to 20 years in prison after he had previously been convicted for cocaine trafficking, possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, b...