Juаn Carlos Herrera-Blanco (“Herrera-Bianco”) appeals from the judgment of conviction of the crime of unlawful reentry into the United States by a previously deported alien without the express consent of the Attorney General of the United States in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a) and § 1326(b)(2). He seeks reversal of his conviction on two discrete grounds:
One: The Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (“AEDPA”) is unconstitutional because it denies the right to a direct аppeal from a deportation order to an alien if he has previously suffered a conviction for an aggravated felony.
Two: The immigration judge deprived him of his right to due process by inducing him to give up his right to file an appeal from the deportation order by erroneously informing him that he was ineligible for relief from deportation. Herrera-Bianco asserts that the provisions of AEDPA denying relief from deportation do not apply to аn alien whose conviction of an aggravated felony occurred prior to the effective date of AEDPA. 1
*717 We affirm because we conclude that there is no merit to these contentions.
I
Herrera-Blanco, а citizen of Mexico, entered the United States on October 27, 1988. He was granted lawful permanent resident status on December 1, 1990. On August 31, 1994, he was charged in an Alaska state court with one count of first degree burglary and one count оf second degree sexual assault. He was convicted following a trial by jury on both counts. Judgment was entered on January 4, 1996.
Herrera-Bianco filed an appeal from the Alaska state court’s judgment. He was released on bail pending the determination of his appeal. The judgment was affirmed on August 4, 1997. Herrera-Bianco began serving his state prison sentence on September 24,1997.
The Immigration and Naturalization Service (“INS”) served Herrera-Bianco with a notice of hearing and an order to show cause dated April 8, 1998 while he was still incarcerated. He was released from prison on May 10, 1998. Shortly thereafter he appeared without counsel before an immigration judge (“IJ”). In response to the IJ’s questions, Herrera-Bianco stated that he should be removed from the United States because of his conviction of two aggravated felonies.
The IJ found that Herrera-Bianco was deportаble from the United States. The IJ then informed Herrera-Bianco that “due to the nature of your conviction you are not eligible for any relief.” Herrera-Bianco waived his right to appeal from the deportation order. He was deported on May 13,1998.
Herrera-Bianco was arrested in Alaska on June 3, 1998. On June 16, 1998, he was indicted for unlawful reentry of an alien previously deported following conviction of a felony in violation of 8 U.S.C. §§ 1326(a), (b)(2). On July 29, 1998, Herrera-Bianco moved to dismiss the indictment. In his motion, he collaterally attacked the validity of the deportation order. He argued that AEDPA is unconstitutional because it precludes judicial review of deportation orders. He also asserted that AEDPA cannot be applied retroactively to deny discretionary relief to an alien who was eligible for such relief when the prior felony was committed before AEDPA’s effective date. He further maintained that the IJ failed to inform him that he was eligible for discretionary relief from deportation. The district court denied the motion to dismiss the indictment.
Herrera-Bianco pled guilty as charged in the indictment but reserved the right to apрeal from the denial of his motion to dismiss the indictment. On November 13, 1998, the district court entered its judgment sentencing Herrera-Bianco to serve 41 months in prison and two years of supervised release for violating §§ 1326(a), (b)(2). We have jurisdiction оver this timely appeal pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291.
II
Herrera-Bianco initially challenges the order of deportation “[bjecause meaningful judicial review [of a deportation order] was absolutely foreclosed by the Anti-Terrоrism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 in violation of the Fifth Amendment Due Process Clause.” Appellant’s Opening Brief at 17. We review de novo a district court’s order denying a collateral attack on a deportation proceeding.
See United States v. Proa-Tovar,
*718 In 1996, Congress enacted the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (“IIRIRA”). It provides that federal courts lack subject matter jurisdiction to review a final order of removal predicated upon the conviction of an aggravated felony. See 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(2)(C). Section 1252(a)(2)(C) reads in pertinent part as follows: “Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no court shall have jurisdiction to review any final order of removal against an alien who is removable by reason of having committed a criminal offense, covered in ... [§ ]1227(a)(2)(A)(iii)....” Section 1227(a)(2)(A)(iii) provides that “[a]ny alien who is convicted of an aggravated felony at any time after admission is deportable.”
The Supreme Court instructed in
United States v. Mendoza-Lopez,
Our cases establish that where a determination made in an administrative proceeding is to play a critical role in the subsequent imposition of a criminal sanction, there must be some meaningful review of the administrative proceeding. This principle means at the very least that where the defects in an administrative proceeding foreclose judicial review of that proceeding, an alternative means of obtaining judicial review must be made available before the administrative order may be used to establish conclusively an element of a criminal offense. The result of those proceedings may subsequently be used to convert the misdemeanor of unlawful entry into the fеlony of unlawful entry after a deportation. Depriving an alien of the right to have the disposition in a deportation hearing reviewed in a judicial forum requires, at a minimum, that review be made available in any subsequent proceeding in which the result of the deportation proceeding is used to establish an element of a criminal offense.
Id. (citations and footnotes omitted).
Where direct judicial review of a deportation order is unavailable, “the validity of the deportation order may be collaterally attacked in the criminal proceeding.”
United States v. Arrieta,
Herrera-Bianco collaterally attacked the validity of the deportation order in the district court in his motion to dismiss the indictment. Thus, he has availed himself of an alternаtive means of judicial review.
See United States v. Mendoza-Lopez,
III
Herrera-Bianco maintains that the waiver of his right to appeal the deportation order was not “considered and intelligent” because the IJ erroneously informed him that he was ineligible for any form of relief from deportation. He argues that the AEDPA § 440(d)’s amendment to former 8 U.S.C. § 1182(c) сannot be applied retroactively to an alien who was convicted of an aggravated felony prior to the April
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24, 1996 effective date of AEDPA;
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maintains that he “should not be punished because the INS failed to initiate deportation prоceedings at the time he entered his plea/and or at the time of sentencing.” Appellant’s Opening Brief at 24. We rejected a similar argument in
Maganch-Pizano v. INS,
AEDPA § 440(d)’s bar- of discretionary-relief previously afforded by INA § 212(c) should not apply to aliens whose deportation proceedings were pending when AEDPA became law and to those who can demonstrate that they entered guilty or nolo contendere pleas in reliance upon the relief afforded by INA § 212(c). However, we аlso hold that, absent a showing of specific reliance, AEDPA applies to those aliens who were convicted of crimes prior to the enactment of AEDPA, but who were not placed in deportation or exclusion proceedings until after AEDPA’s effective date.
Id. at 614.
Herrera-Bianco was not placed in deportation proceedings until after April 24, 1996. The record shows that he pled not guilty and exercised his right to trial by jury. Thus, he does not comе within the exception to the retroactive application of § 440(d) for persons who pled guilty or nolo contendere in reliance upon INA § 212(c). Under the law of this circuit, Herrera-Bianco was not entitled to apply for a waiver of dеportation because his deportation proceedings did not occur until after April 24, 1996, the effective date of AEDPA. The IJ did not err in informing Herrera-Bianco that he was not eligible for discretionary relief from deportаtion. Since he admitted to the IJ that he was subject to deportation because he had been convicted of two aggravated offenses, he was not improperly deprived of the opportunity for judicial reviеw by the IJ’s statement that he was not eligible for discretionary relief. He has failed to demonstrate that the entry of the deportation order was fundamentally unfair. See 8 U.S.C. § 1326(d)(l)-(3).
IV
The district court did not err in denying the motion to suppress the indictment. Thе judgment of conviction is AFFIRMED. This matter is REMANDED to the district court with directions to correct the judgment of conviction to exclude the reference to 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b)(2).
See United States v. Rivera-Sanchez,
Notes
. Prior to the enactment of AEDPA, an alien previously convicted of an aggravated felony was eligible for discretionary relief pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1182(c) (1994). In AEDPA, Congress amended § 1182(c) to provide that an alien is ineligible to seek a waiver of deportation if he or she is "deportable by reason of having cоmmitted any criminal offense covered in 8 U.S.C. § 1251 (a)(2)(A)(iii), (B), (C), or (D).” Antiterrorism and Effective *717 Death Penalty Act of 1996, Pub.L. No. 104-132, § 440(d), 110 Stat. 1214, 1277 (1996) (codified as amended in scattered sections of 8, 15, 18, 22, 28, 40, 42, 50 U.S.C.). The content of 8 U.S.C. § 1251 was later transferred to 8 U.S.C. § 1227. See 8 U.S.C. § 1251 (1999). Under 8 U.S.C. § 1227(a)(2)(A)(iii), "[a]ny alien who is convicted of an aggravated felony at any time after admission is deportable.”
. Prior to its repeal, § 1182(c) provided:
Aliens lawfully admitted for permanent residence who temporarily proceeded abroad voluntarily and not under an order of deportation, and who are returning to a lawful un-relinquished domicile of seven consecutive years, may be admitted in the discretion of the Attorney General without regard to the provisions of subsection (a) of this section (other thаn paragraphs (3) and (9)(C)). Nothing contained in this subsection shall limit the authority of the Attorney General to exercise the discretion vested in him under section 1181(b) of this title. The first sentence of this subsection shall not apply to an alien who has been convicted of one or more aggravated felonies and has served for such felony or felonies a term of imprisonment of at least 5 years.