BOSTON – A Brazilian national unlawfully residing in Massachusetts was sentenced in federal court in Boston for unlawfully reentering the United States after deportation as well as selling fraudulent Social Security cards and Legal Permanent Resident cards, often referred to as “Green Cards.”
According to the Massachusetts Department of Justice, Liene Tavares DeBarros, Jr., 40, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Denise J. Casper to five months in prison, followed by two years of supervised release, with deportation pending upon completion of his sentence. In May 2025, Tavares DeBarros pleaded guilty to two counts of unlawful transfer of a document or authentication feature and one count of unlawful reentry of a deported alien. He was arrested and charged via criminal complaint in March 2025.
Tavares DeBarros had been deported from the United States in July 2010 but unlawfully reentered the country at a later date…