United States v. Delgado-Nunez

JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:

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Sergio Luis Delgado-Nuñez (“Delgado”), then a permanent resident of the *496United States, was deported in 1994 following a felony drug conviction. In 1997, he illegally reentered the United States using his old green card. After having been arrested for an unrelated offense, he was found by an INS agent in Big Spring, Texas, in September 1997. Big Spring is in the Northern District of Texas.

While in custody at Big Spring, Delgado admitted to the INS agent that he had reentered the United States illegally. From September 1997 to September 1999, he remained in state…