He had to go - so now he has to go.
When cops busted David Rivera Cruzado for urinating on a Queens sidewalk in March, a fingerprint check revealed he had been deported to Peru in 1999 and wasn't supposed to be on Roosevelt Ave. - never mind in the U.S. at all.
His weak bladder will cost Cruzado dearly.
After pleading guilty in Brooklyn Federal Court to sneaking over the Mexican border into Texas in December 2005, Cruzado is now facing four years in prison before he's booted out of the U.S. a second time.
"I want to apologize to the U.S. government for coming back this way," Cruzado told Federal Judge Frederic Block on Friday. "I just came to work. I will never do this again."
Cruzado, 39, was originally deported after earning two felony convictions while overstaying his visa.
Defense attorney Charu Narang said Cruzado was a hardworking laborer just trying to support his mentally disabled daughter, who lives with her mother in Lima.
"He had been out drinking and needed to find a bathroom; that's how this whole nightmare started for him," Narang said yesterday.
"Society would be best served by sending him back to his home country as fast as possible."
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