Opinion ID: 203172
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Unlawfully present

Text: Diaz asserts that the government did not sufficiently prove he was unlawfully present in the United States because it did not check both of the Alien Registration numbers associated with his aliases and did not produce a Certificate of Nonexistence of Record for the name Tony Diaz. However, as discussed above, the government provided the jury with a veritable cornucopia of evidence from DHS, on the basis of which it was clearly not plain error for the jury to conclude that the Tony Diaz on trial and the Santo Rodolfo Romero-Villar, a/k/a Santo Romero, a/k/a Santo R. Romero, named on the Certificate of Nonexistence of Record entered into evidence were the same person. This court has held that such a certificate can be used to establish unlawful presence in the United States. See Scantleberry-Frank, 158 F.3d at 616 n. 1. Furthermore, Sassone adequately explained why only one Alien Registration number was checked, when she testified that the government ran one number because as of 1992 the two numbers had been consolidated into one file.