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UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Heriberto SUAREZ-AGUILAR, Defendant-Appellant.
    No. 11-10213.
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Submitted Feb. 21, 2012.
    
    Filed March 1, 2012.
    ' Michele Myers Beckwith, USSAC-Office of the U.S. Attorney, Sacramento, CA, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
    
      Michael Petrik, Jr., Assistant Federal Public Defender, FPDCA-Federal Public Defender’s Office, Sacramento, CA, for Defendant-Appellant.
    Before: FERNANDEZ, McKEOWN, and BYBEE, Circuit Judges.
    
      
       The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).
    
   MEMORANDUM

Heriberto Suarez-Aguilar appeals from the 57-month sentence imposed following his guilty-plea conviction for being a deported alien found in the United States, in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, and we affirm.

Suarez-Aguilar contends that his sentence is substantively unreasonable because the district court did not vary downward from the Guidelines range based on the “staleness” of his prior conviction, which served as the predicate for a 16-level enhancement under U.S.S.G. § 2L1.2(b)(l)(A). He also contends that the district court erred by failing to vary downward based on a proposed amendment to U.S.S.G. § 2L1.2(b) that was pending at the time he was sentenced.

In light of the totality of the circumstances, including the seriousness of Suarez-Aguilar’s prior conviction and his multiple prior deportations, the within-Guidelines sentence is not substantively unreasonable. See 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a); Gall v. United States, 552 U.S. 38, 51, 128 S.Ct. 586, 169 L.Ed.2d 445 (2007). Furthermore, the district court’s failure to grant the requested variance to reflect the proposed amendment to the Guidelines did not result in a substantively unreasonable sentence. See United States v. Ruiz-Apolonio, 657 F.3d 907, 918 (9th Cir.2011) (“That the Commission has promulgated a not-yet-adopted amendment that is very likely to be adopted and that would result in reduced Guidelines ranges does not render a district court’s failure to grant a variance substantively unreasonable.”).

AFFIRMED. 
      
       This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.