MEMORANDUM**

Rene Luna-Maradiaga appeals his conviction pursuant to guilty plea and his 82-month sentence for unlawful reentry by a deported, removed and/or excluded alien in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326.

Luna-Maradiaga contends that he cannot be subjected to a sentencing enhancement under 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b) because that statute applies to aliens who have been removed, and not to aliens who have been excluded, as Luna-Maradiaga was. This contention lacks merit because we have held that there is no legally significant distinction between “deportation,” *355“exclusion” and “removal” for purposes of the crime defined by 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a) and the enhancement under section 1326(b). United States v. Luna-Madellaga, 315 F.3d 1224, 1225 fn. 2 (9th Cir. 2003); United States v. Lopez-Gonzalez, 183 F.3d 933, 934-35 (9th Cir. 1999).

AFFIRMED.