Jose Vences-Casteneda (Vences) appeals his sentence following his guilty-plea conviction for illegal reentry in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326. Vences contends that the district court was improperly prevented from considering during sentencing the disparity caused by the lack of an early disposition sentencing program in the Northern District of Texas. Specifically, he contends that this court’s ruling in United States v. Aguirre-Villa, 460 F.3d 681, 682-83 (5th Cir. 2006), cert. denied, — U.S. -, 127 S.Ct. 3053, 168 L.Ed.2d 766 (2007), which held that sentencing courts do not err by refusing to factor in such disparities, was overruled by the Supreme Court’s decision in Kimbrough v. United States, — U.S. -, 128 S.Ct. 558, 169 L.Ed.2d 481 (2007). Although the parties disagree regarding the applicable standard of review, this court need not resolve the disagreement because Vences’s argument fails regardless of which standard is applied. We rejected precisely the same argument in United States v. Gomez-Herrera, 523 F.3d 554, 562-64 (5th Cir. 2008).

In light of Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 120 S.Ct. 2348, 147 L.Ed.2d 435 (2000), Vences challenges the constitutionality of § 1326(b)’s treatment of prior felony and aggravated felony convictions as sentencing factors rather than elements of the offense that must be found by a jury. This argument is foreclosed by Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224, 235, 118 S.Ct. 1219, 140 L.Ed.2d 350 (1998). United States v. Pineda-Arrellano, 492 F.3d 624, 625 (5th Cir. 2007), cert. denied, — U.S.-, 128 S.Ct. 872, 169 L.Ed.2d 737 (2008).

AFFIRMED.