
    UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Elio MOYA-AVILA, aka Jesus Valencia Moya, Defendant-Appellant.
    No. 00-50185.
    D.C. No. CR-99-1017-SVW.
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Submitted July 9, 2001.
    Decided July 23, 2001.
    Before KOZINSKI, T.G. NELSON, and RICHARD C. TALLMAN, Circuit Judges.
    
      
       The panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).
    
   MEMORANDUM

Elio Moya-Avila appeals the judgment of conviction and 87-month sentence imposed after his guilty plea to being an illegal alien found in the United States following deportation, in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326. Relying on Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530. U.S. 466, 120 S.Ct. 2348, 147 L.Ed.2d 435 (2000), Moya-Avila contends that the district court improperly imposed a sentence in excess of the two-year maximum set forth in 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a) because the government neither pled in the indictment nor established through the guilty plea that Moya-Avila had been deported subsequent to a prior conviction for an aggravated felony. He further contends that Apprendi calls into question the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224, 118 S.Ct. 1219, 140 L.Ed.2d 350 (1998). These arguments are foreclosed by United States v. Pacheco-Zepeda, 234 F.3d 411 (9th Cir.2000). United States v. Castillo-Rivera, 244 F.3d 1020, 2001 WL 287046 (9th Cir. March 26, 2001).

AFFIRMED. 
      
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