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Santa C. NAVARRO, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
    No. 06-72315.
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Submitted July 14, 2010.
    
    Filed July 16, 2010.
    
      Alan R. Diamante, Law Offices of Alan R. Diamante, Los Angeles, CA, for Petitioner.
    Melissa Lynn Neiman-Kelting, Senior Litigation Counsel, OIL, DOJ — U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division/Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, Ronald E. LeFevre, Office of the District Counsel, Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, for Respondent.
    Before: FARRIS, HALL and SILVERMAN, Circuit Judges.
    
      
       The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).
    
   MEMORANDUM

Santa C. Navarro, a native and citizen of Mexico and lawful permanent resident, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ final order of removal. We have jurisdiction to consider the exhausted claims pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252 and deny in part and dismiss in part the petition for review.

We review the legal questions and due process claims de novo and factual findings for substantial evidence. Aguilar Gonzalez v. Mukasey, 534 F.3d 1204, 1208 (9th Cir.2008); Colmenar v. INS, 210 F.3d 967, 971 (9th Cir.2000).

Contrary to Navarro’s assertion, the Board of Immigration Appeals applied the correct legal standard and properly distinguished this case from Altamirano v. Gonzales, 427 F.3d 586 (9th Cir.2005). Unlike Altamirano, Navarro admitted at her hearing that she repeatedly lied to border officers about her brother’s identity and their relationship knowing that her brother had presented a false birth certificate at primary inspection. Navarro’s admissions provide substantial evidence of knowing affirmative assistance of her brother’s attempted illegal entry using the false birth certificate. It is unnecessary to consider Navarro’s challenges to the immigration judge’s use of the 1-213 because Navarro’s testimony, alone, clearly establishes the alien smuggling charge.

Navarro also alleges that the immigration judge violated her due process rights by supposedly failing to consider the totality of the evidence. The record is to the contrary. The immigration judge simply didn’t believe the version of the story that Navarro presented at the hearing and the evidence supports the immigration judge’s ruling.

We lack jurisdiction to consider the remaining claims, which were raised for the first time in this petition for review. They have not been exhausted. See 8 U.S.C. § 1252(d); Barron v. Ashcroft, 358 F.3d 674, 678 (9th Cir.2004).

PETITION FOR REVIEW DISMISSED IN PART AND DENIED IN PART. 
      
      
         This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.