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Date Created: 2017-06-19 18:04:38.807326+00
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Case: 16-41483      Document: 00514038038         Page: 1    Date Filed: 06/19/2017

           IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                    FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT
                                                                        United States Court of Appeals
                                                                                 Fifth Circuit

                                    No. 16-41483                               FILED
                                  Summary Calendar                         June 19, 2017
                                                                          Lyle W. Cayce
                                                                               Clerk
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

                                                 Plaintiff-Appellee

v.

JOSE ARMANDO RAMOS, also known as Jose Marquez-Ramos,

                                                 Defendant-Appellant

                   Appeal from the United States District Court
                        for the Southern District of Texas
                             USDC No. 1:16-CR-380-1

Before REAVLEY, OWEN, and ELROD, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM: *
       Jose Armando Ramos appeals following his conviction for illegal reentry.
He argues that his prior conviction for aggravated assault in violation of Texas
Penal Code § 22.02 was improperly characterized as a crime of violence for
purposes of U.S.S.G. § 2L1.2(b)(1)(A)(ii). He also argues that the entry of
judgment under 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b)(2) was erroneous because Texas aggravated
assault is not an aggravated felony under 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(43)(F), which

       * 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 R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not
be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5TH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.
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defines aggravated felony by reference to 18 U.S.C. § 16. Ramos failed to object
to these determinations in the district court; therefore, we review for plain
error. See United States v. Henao-Melo, 591 F.3d 798, 801 (5th Cir. 2009); see
also Puckett v. United States, 556 U.S. 129, 135 (2009).
      In United States v. Guillen-Alvarez, 489 F.3d 197, 199-01 (5th Cir. 2007),
we held that a conviction for aggravated assault in violation of Texas Penal
Code § 22.02 qualifies as the enumerated offense of aggravated assault, and,
thus, a crime of violence for purposes of § 2L1.2(b)(1)(A)(ii). Guillen-Alvarez
remains valid after Mathis v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 2243 (2016). United
States v. Shepherd, 848 F.3d 425, 427-28 (5th Cir. 2017). We are bound by our
own precedent unless and until that precedent is altered by a decision of the
Supreme Court or this court sitting en banc. See United States v. Setser, 607
F.3d 128, 131 (5th Cir. 2010).
      We have also rejected a challenge to the constitutionality of § 16(b) based
on Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015). See United States v.
Gonzalez-Longoria, 831 F.3d 670, 672-79 (5th Cir.) (en banc), petition for cert.
filed (Sept. 29, 2016) (No. 16-6259). The grant of certiorari in Lynch v. Dimaya,
137 S. Ct. 31 (2016), does not alter our holding in Gonzalez-Longoria. See
Setser, 607 F.3d at 131. The judgment of the district court is AFFIRMED.

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