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UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Jose CORTES-PACHECO, Defendant-Appellant.
    No. 09-10757
    Non-Argument Calendar.
    United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.
    July 14, 2009.
    
      Maria Guzman, Tampa, FL, for Defendant-Appellant.
    Yvette Rhodes, David Paul Rhodes, United States Attorney’s Office, Tampa, FL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
    Before BLACK, BARKETT and PRYOR, Circuit Judges.
   PER CURIAM:

Jose Cortes-Pacheco appeals his sentence to 20 months of imprisonment following his plea of guilty to reentering the United States illegally after three previous deportations. Cortes-Pacheco argues that his sentence is unreasonable. We affirm.

The district court did not abuse its discretion by imposing a sentence above the guideline range. The district court correctly calculated the advisory guideline range of zero to six months of imprisonment and found that a sentence within that range would be “ineffective” based on Cortes-Pacheco’s “repeated and apparently inexcusable repetitive reentries into this country[.]” The district court considered the sentencing factors and found that a variance above the guideline range was necessary to address Cortes-Pacheco’s recidivism and deter him and “those similarly situated that this sort of repetitious and reckless behavior and defiance of established law [was] unacceptable.” The statutory maximum sentence of imprisonment for illegal reentry is two years. 8 U.S.C. § 1826(a). Cortes-Pacheco’s sentence of 20 months of imprisonment is reasonable.

Cortes-Pacheco’s sentence is AFFIRMED.