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UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff—Appellee, v. Luis Enrique DIAZ-VALENCIA, Defendant—Appellant.
    No. 01-10489.
    D.C. No. CR-00-00424-DWH.
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Submitted Feb. 11, 2002.
    
    Decided Feb. 21, 2002.
    Before B. FLETCHER, T.G. NELSON, and TALLMAN, Circuit Judges.
    
      
       This panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).
    
   MEMORANDUM

Luis Enrique Diaz-Valencia appeals the sentence imposed following his guilty plea to unlawful reentry of a deported alien after conviction for an aggravated felony, in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a). Diaz-Valencia contends that under Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 120 S.Ct. 2348, 147 L.Ed.2d 435 (2000), the district court deprived him of due process by imposing a sentence greater than Section 1326(a)’s two-year maximum based on Diaz-Valencia’s prior aggravated felony, where Diaz-Valencia did not admit to having previously committed an aggravated felony. Diaz-Valencia, who states that he presents the issue merely to preserve it in the event of ensuing favorable Supreme Court precedent, acknowledges that the argument is foreclosed by United States v. Pacheco-Zepeda, 234 F.3d 411 (9th Cir.2000) (as amended).

AFFIRMED. 
      
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