Campos

Defendant and appellant Ramon V. Campos appeals from the judgment of the Superior Court of San Francisco County, entered after the trial court revoked his probation, sentencing him to prison for 16 months for a violation of Penal Code section 487, subdivision 3 (grand theft of an automobile). Appellant contends on appeal that (1) the probation officer’s conclusion that appellant’s reentry to the United States was “illegal” does not provide a sufficient basis for revocation of probation; and (2) the trial court in revoking appellant’s probation failed to consider as a mitigating factor that he had been deported. We have found no merit to either of these contentions and have affirmed the judgment.

Appellant pled guilty to a violation of Penal Code section 487, subdivision 3, and on June 6, 1983, the trial court suspended imposition of sentence and placed appellant on probation for three years on condition that he spend six months in county jail. Upon completion of his sentence in county jail, appellant was deported to Mexico. On March 21, 1986, Probation Officer George Hawthorne filed a motion to revoke appellant’s probation alleging that appellant had never reported and…