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UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee v. Jesus Adrian GARCIA-CANO, Defendant-Appellant.
    No. 14-50619
    Summary Calendar.
    United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
    Dec. 16, 2014.
    Joseph H. Gay, Jr., Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office, San Antonio, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
    Donna F. Coltharp, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Maureen Scott Franco, Federal Public Defender, Federal Public Defender’s Office, San Antonio, TX, for Defendant-Appellant.
    Before REAVLEY, DENNIS, and SOUTHWICK, Circuit Judges.
   PER CURIAM:

Jesus Adrian Garcia-Cano appeals the 10-month within-guidelines sentence im: posed following his guilty plea conviction for illegal reentry following deportation in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326. He argues that his sentence is substantively unreasonable because it fails to account for his cultural assimilation, the fact that his longest sentence prior to the instant sentence was six months, and the fact that his motive for returning to the United States was to avoid violence and to be with and support his family. He recognizes that his argument that his within-guidelines sentence is not entitled to a presumption of reasonableness because U.S.S.G. § 2L1.2 is not empirically based is foreclosed by this court’s precedent, see United States v. Duarte, 569 F.3d 528, 529-31 (5th Cir. 2009), but he wishes to preserve the issue for Supreme Court review.

Because Garcia-Cano did not argue in the district court that his sentence was unreasonable, his argument is renewable for plain error only. See United States v. Peltier, 505 F.3d 389, 391-92 (5th Cir.2007); see also Puckett v. United States, 556 U.S. 129, 135, 129 S.Ct. 1423, 173 L.Ed.2d 266 (2009). Garcia-Cano acknowledges that his failure to object to his sentence in the district court results in the application of the plain error standard of review, conceding that the issue is foreclosed by Peltier; however, he notes that the circuits are divided on whether a failure to object to the reasonableness of the sentence upon its imposition requires plain error review, and he seeks to preserve that issue for possible review by the Supreme Court.

As Garcia-Cano’s sentence was within the guidelines range, a presumption of reasonableness applies. See United States v. Alonzo, 435 F.3d 551, 554 (5th Cir.2006). The district court considered the 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) factors, including Garcia-Cano’s criminal history and his personal history, before imposing the sentence. After considering the totality of the circumstances, see Gall v. United States, 552 U.S. 38, 51, 128 S.Ct. 586, 169 L.Ed.2d 445 (2007), we conclude that Garcia-Cano has not shown that the district court erred, much less plainly erred, in imposing his sentence. See Rita v. United States, 551 U.S. 338, 351, 127 S.Ct. 2456, 168 L.Ed.2d 203 (2007); Peltier, 505 F.3d at 391-92; see also United States v. Gomez-Herrera, 523 F.3d 554, 565-66 (5th Cir.2008); United States v. Aguirre-Villa, 460 F.3d 681, 683 (5th Cir.2006). The judgment of the district court is AFFIRMED. 
      
       Pursuant to 5th Cir R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5th Cir. R. 47.5.4.