A federal judge on Monday sentenced a native of Brazil to five months in prison for bringing illegal immigrants into Maine to obtain driver’s licenses.

Guilherme Malaquias, 23, of Newton, Mass., will be deported back to Brazil following his sentence.

Malaquias previously pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Portland to a charge of transporting illegal aliens for gain.

According to an investigator with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement unit in Portland, Malaquias was accepting payments of $2,000 to drive fellow Brazilians from Massachusetts to Maine, where he would help them get licenses using false documents.

He allegedly obtained a Maine driver’s license in 2006, using a Biddeford post office box for an address. Malaquias was arrested March 20 in Biddeford. His passenger, 19-year-old Marison Celante, told investigators that he hired Malaquias to help him get a license.