A man publicly arrested by plainclothes immigration officials in an Iowa City market has pleaded guilty to misusing immigration and social security documents.
Jorge Elisier González Ochoa, 28, admitted in court documents filed on Friday, Feb. 13, that he entered the United States illegally in late 2024. He said that by May 2025, he was using a “permanent residency card” and a Social Security number that belonged to someone named Elijah Rodriguez.
González’s use of Rodriguez’s information was “for the purpose of obtaining for himself anything of value, namely unlawful employment,” court documents said…