United States v. Ramirez-Silva

ORDER

Marcial Ramirez-Silva pleaded guilty to being in the United States without permission after a prior removal, 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a). The district court sentenced him to 46 months in prison, the bottom of the guidelines range. He argues on appeal that the court failed to address his proposed bases for an even lower sentence. We affirm.

In March 2009, a deputy sheriff in Effingham County, Illinois, pulled over Ramirez-Silva in a routine traffic stop. Ramirez-Silva provided a Mexican identification card with the name “Alvaro Torres-Valencia,” one of his several aliases. He admitted being in the…