GEE, Circuit Judge:
Today's case represents mid-range fall-out from United States v. Mendoza-Lopez, ___ U.S. ___, 107 S.Ct. 2148, 95 L.Ed.2d 772 (1987), which overruled many years of our Circuit's precedent that the validity of an underlying deportation order cannot be collaterally challenged in a subsequent prosecution for illegal reentry. See e.g., United States v. De La Cruz Sepulveda,
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