Stephens

*735 MEMORANDUM **

Lennis Dwayne Stephens appeals the sentence imposed for his violations of conditions of his supervised release. Stephens contends that the district court failed to give reasons for the sentence and to explain why a sentence within the Guidelines range was inadequate, and that the sentence is unreasonable. We affirm.

Stephens initially was sentenced to twelve months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, on his guilty plea to one count of bringing an illegal alien into the United States without presentation in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1324 . Among other conditions imposed on Stephens’s supervised release, he was not to enter Mexico without permission from his probation officer and was required to participate in a drug abuse program and submit to urinalysis testing.

On July 25, 2005, Stephens admitted to four violations of the conditions of his supervised release, including using marijuana and fading to submit several urine samples. The range of imprisonment under the Guidelines policy statement was three to nine months, and the maximum term under the statute was two years. Stephens, a devoted single father to two young children, lived…