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Date Created: 2023-07-10 18:00:46.34046+00
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Case: 22-50897        Document: 00516814386             Page: 1      Date Filed: 07/10/2023

             United States Court of Appeals
                  for the Fifth Circuit
                                    _____________
                                                                               United States Court of Appeals
                                                                                        Fifth Circuit
                                     No. 22-50897
                                 consolidated with                                     FILED
                                     No. 22-50898                                    July 10, 2023
                                   Summary Calendar                              Lyle W. Cayce
                                   _____________                                      Clerk

   United States of America,

                                                                      Plaintiff—Appellee,

                                            versus

   Iker Fabricio Mendez-Alfaro,

                                              Defendant—Appellant.
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                    Appeals from the United States District Court
                         for the Western District of Texas
                     USDC Nos. 4:19-CR-642-4, 4:22-CR-243-1
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   Before Davis, Haynes, and Ho, Circuit Judges.
   Per Curiam: *
         Iker Fabricio Mendez-Alfaro appeals his conviction and sentence for
   illegal reentry in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a) and (b)(2) as well as the
   judgment revoking his supervised release for a prior offense. He has not
   briefed, and has therefore abandoned, any challenge to the revocation of

         _____________________
         *
             This opinion is not designated for publication. See 5th Cir. R. 47.5.
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   supervised release or to the revocation sentence. See United States v. Reagan,
   596 F.3d 251, 254-55 (5th Cir. 2010).
          Mendez-Alfaro contends that the enhancement of his illegal-reentry
   sentence pursuant to § 1326(b) is unconstitutional because the fact of a prior
   conviction was not charged and proved beyond a reasonable doubt. He has
   filed a letter brief and an unopposed motion for summary affirmance in
   which, explaining that he seeks to preserve the issue for further review, he
   concedes this argument is foreclosed by Almendarez-Torres v. United States,
   523 U.S. 224 (1998). Because Mendez-Alfaro is correct that his argument his
   foreclosed, see United States v. Pervis, 937 F.3d 546, 553-54 (5th Cir. 2019),
   summary disposition is appropriate, see Groendyke Transp., Inc. v. Davis, 406
   F.2d 1158, 1162 (5th Cir. 1969).
          For these reasons, Mendez-Alfaro’s motion is GRANTED, and the
   judgments of the district court are AFFIRMED.

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