A Minnesota Dad double bill

Two Minnesota men pled guilty, back-to-back, to illegal immigration felonies in federal court in downtown Minneapolis this afternoon.

The hearings were scheduled consecutively on the court calendar. The overlapping hearings took place in different courtrooms, in front of different judges, with different taxpayer-paid, Spanish-language interpreters.

Up first, Julian Onesimo Narvaez-Ramirez of Mexico had previously taken Minnesota Dad of the Month honors for August.

Narvaez, now aged 53, is charged with an additional federal felony count of failure to register as a sex offender. That count arose from his 2014 state conviction on two felony counts of sexually abusing his own elementary-school-aged daughter.

In 2022, after serving his state prison sentence, he was deported back to Mexico. In May 2025, Narvaez was found living in McLeod County, living under an assumed name.

Today, Narvaez pled guilty to both charges.

Next up was Ezequiel Rojas-Gasca, aged 43 also of Mexico, himself a Minnesota Dad of the Week honoree back in July.

Although edged out for Dad of the Month honors, if was not for lack of effort on the part of Rojas. He, too, was charged with felony sexual abuse of his own daughter (from age 5), but the case was ultimately dismissed for lack of cooperating witnesses, giving the edge to Narvaez and his two courtroom convictions.

Rojas’ state record also includes the usual slate of multiple drunk-driving convictions. At the federal hearing today, Rojas pled guilty to the illegal re-entry charge. Amazingly, the judge ordered him to be released, pending sentencing, if and when that ever occurs.

After a drunk driving conviction in 2011, Rojas was ordered deported. He appealed and in 2022 (eleven (11) years later) his appeal was denied. That still didn’t get him deported. It took the sexual abuse arrest in 2024 to finally see him returned to Mexico.

iAdiós, mis amigos!