Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee v. Ruben ROSALES-BUGARIN, Defendant-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2015-03-17
Citations: 597 F. App'x 801
Docket Number: Nos. 14-50706, 14-50711
Parties: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee v. Ruben ROSALES-BUGARIN, Defendant-Appellant.
Judges: Before DAVIS, CLEMENT, and COSTA, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 597
Pages: 801–802

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee v. Ruben ROSALES-BUGARIN, Defendant-Appellant.
Nos. 14-50706, 14-50711
Summary Calendar.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
March 17, 2015.
Joseph H. Gay, Jr., Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office, San Antonio, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
Laura G. Greenberg, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Maureen Scott Franco, Federal Public Defender, Federal Public Defender’s Office, San Antonio, TX, for Defendant-Appellant.
Before DAVIS, CLEMENT, and COSTA, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Ruben Rosales-Bugarin appeals the within-guidelines, 60-month prison sentence imposed following his guilty plea conviction for illegal reentry. He contends that his sentence is substantively unrea sonable and greater than necessary to satisfy the 18 U.S.C. § 8553(a) factors.
We review the substantive reasonableness of a sentence for an abuse of discretion. See Gall v. United States, 552 U.S. 38, 51, 128 S.Ct. 586, 169 L.Ed.2d 445 (2007). Rosales-Bugarin has failed to rebut the presumption of reasonableness that we apply to his within-guidelines sentence. See United States v. Cooks, 589 F.3d 173, 186 (5th Cir.2009); United States v. Campos-Maldonado, 531 F.3d 337, 338 (5th Cir.2008).
The district court was "in a superior position to find facts and judge their import under § 3553(a)." Campos-Maldonado, 531 F.3d at 339. The court acknowledged Rosales-Bugarin's mitigating arguments but concluded that a within-guidelines sentence was appropriate. We have rejected the argument that U.S.S.G. § 2L1.2's double-counting of a prior conviction in the calculation of a defendant's offense level and criminal history score necessarily renders a sentence unreasonable. United States v. Duarte, 569 F.3d 528, 529-31 (5th Cir.2009). We have also rejected substantive reasonableness challenges based on the alleged lack of seriousness of illegal reentry. United States v. Juarez-Duarte, 513 F.3d 204, 212 (5th Cir.2008); United States v. Aguirre-Villa, 460 F.3d 681, 683 (5th Cir.2006). Finally, as Rosales-Bugarin concedes, also foreclosed is his argument that the presumption of reasonableness should not be applied to his sentence because § 2L1.2 lacks an empirical basis. See Duarte, 569 F.3d at 530-31; United States v. Mondragon-Santiago, 564 F.3d 357, 366-67 (5th Cir.2009).
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.