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092999P.pdf   09/22/2010  United States  v.  Hector Loaiza-Sanchez
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  09-2999
                          and No:  09-3003
   U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa - Sioux City   
   [PUBLISHED] [Loken, Author, with Bright and Gruender, Circuit Judges]
   Criminal case - Sentencing. A person's legal status as a deportable alien
   in not synonymous with national origin, and the district court committed
   no procedural error when, consistent with statutes and sentencing
   guidelines provisions, it considered defendants' illegal alien status;
   defendants' illegal entry into the country is a permissible sentencing
   factor; sentences were not unreasonable. Judge Bright, dissenting.