Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Ruben REBOLLAR-ZUAREZ, a.k.a. Jose Rebollar, Defendant-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2011-11-10
Citations: 446 F. App'x 246
Docket Number: No. 11-12129
Parties: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Ruben REBOLLAR-ZUAREZ, a.k.a. Jose Rebollar, Defendant-Appellant.
Judges: Before WILSON, PRYOR and FAY, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 446
Pages: 246–247

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Ruben REBOLLAR-ZUAREZ, a.k.a. Jose Rebollar, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 11-12129
Non-Argument Calendar.
United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.
Nov. 10, 2011.
Joseph A. Plummer, Lawrence R. Som-merfeld, Sally Yates, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Atlanta, GA, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
Kendal D. Silas, Stephanie Kearns, Federal Defender Program, Inc., Atlanta, GA, for Defendant-Appellant.
Before WILSON, PRYOR and FAY, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Ruben Rebollar-Zuarez appeals a $500 fíne imposed for reentering the United States illegally. 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a), (b)(2). Rebollar-Zuarez challenges, for the first time, the lack of factual findings about the need for, or his ability to pay, his fine. We affirm.
The district court did not plainly err by failing to make findings of fact to support its decision to order Rebollar-Zuarez to pay a fine that was substantially below the recommended amount of $7,500 to $75,000. The district court was required to impose a fine unless Rebollar-Zuarez "establish[ed] that he [was] unable to pay and [was] not likely to become able to pay any fine." United States Sentencing Guidelines Manual § 5E1.2(a) (Nov. 2010). The presentence investigation report provided that Rebollar-Zuarez might "be able to pay a lower fine" than the recommended amount based on his steady employment from 2004 to 2010 during which he had earned between $8 an hour and $100 a day, opened a joint savings account with his wife, and purchased a home in Mexico. Rebollar-Zuarez, by "failing] to object to [those] allegations of fact in [his] [presen-tence report,] admitted] those facts for sentencing purposes," United States v. Wade, 458 F.3d 1273, 1277 (11th Cir.2006), and the district court was entitled to rely on Rebollar-Zuarez's admission to impose the $500 fine. See United States v. Hernandez, 160 F.3d 661, 666 (11th Cir.1998).
We AFFIRM the fine imposed on Re-bollar-Zuarez.