U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 2010

Ortiz v. Holder

Ortiz v. Holder
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · Decided June 10, 2010 · Canby, Thomas, Fletcher
383 F. App'x 624

Ortiz v. Holder

Opinion

MEMORANDUM **

Panuneio Munoz Ortiz, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ order dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge’s decision finding him removable for having participated in alien smuggling. Our jurisdiction is governed by 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review de novo questions of law, Altamirano v. Gonzales, 427 F.3d 586, 591 (9th Cir. 2005), and claims of constitutional violations, Ram v. INS, 243 F.3d 510, 516 (9th Cir. 2001). We deny in part and dismiss in part the petition for review.

Ortiz’s due process rights were not violated by admission of the Record of De-portable/Iixadmissible Alien (“Form I-213”) because the fonn was probative and its admission was not fundamentally unfair, and the preparing officer testified at the hearing x-egarding the preparation of the form. See Espinoza v. INS, 45 F.3d 308, 310 (9th Cir. 1995) (noting that “[t]he sole test for admission of evidence [in a deportation proceeding] is whether the evidence is probative and its admission is fundamentally fair”).

We lack jui'isdiction over Ortiz’s unex-hausted contention that the admission of the Form 1-213 violated due process because it did not demonstrate whether a *625 government agent had informed him of his regulatory rights. See Barron v. Ashcroft, 358 F.3d 674, 678 (9th Cir. 2004).

PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED in part; DISMISSED in part.

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This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.

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