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UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Jorge Alfredo PINA-ARELLANO, also known as Jorge Alberto Lopez, also known as Jose Lopez-Gonzalez, Appellant.
    No. 02-1011.
    United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
    Submitted April 24, 2002.
    Decided April 26, 2002.
    Before LOKEN, BEAM, and RILEY, Circuit Judges.
   PER CURIAM.

Jorge Pina-Arellano appeals the sentence imposed by the district court after he pleaded guilty to illegal reentry following deportation, in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a) and (b)(2). Specifically, Pina contends he was entitled to a downward departure because—as an alien subject to removal—he is subject to a longer and harsher period of incarceration.

As he concedes, this court rejected his argument in United States v. Cardosa-Rodriguez, 241 F.3d 613, 614 (8th Cir.2001) (deportable aliens’ ineligibility for Bureau of Prisons benefits does not provide basis for downward departure in illegal-reentry cases), and only this court en banc may overrule that decision, see Campbell v. Purkett, 957 F.2d 535, 536 (8th Cir.1992) (per curiam).

Accordingly, we affirm.

A true copy. 
      
      . The HONORABLE ROBERT W. PRATT, United States District Judge for the Southern District of Iowa.