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Martha Torres MENDOZA, Petitioner, v. Jefferson B. SESSIONS III, Attorney General, Respondent.
    No. 12-73127
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Submitted June 26, 2017
    
    Filed July 5, 2017
    Douglas D. Nelson, Esquire, Attorney, Douglas D. Nelson, Attorney at Law, San Diego, CA, for Petitioner
    Wendy Benner-Leon, Esquire, OIL, DOJ—U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division/Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, Chief Counsel ICE, Office of the Chief Counsel, Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, for Respondent
    Before: PAEZ, BEA, and MURGUIÁ, ' Circuit Judges.
    
      
       The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2),
    
   MEMORANDUM

Martha Torres Mendoza, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitions for review of the Board of .Immigration Appeals’ order dismissing her appeal from an immigration judge’s (“U”) decision denying her motion to suppress evidence and terminate removal proceedings, and ordering her removed. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review de novo the denial of a motion to suppress, and claims of constitutional violations. Martinez-Medina v. Holder, 673 F.3d 1029, 1033 (9th Cir. 2011). We deny the petition for review.

The agency did not err in denying Torres Mendoza’s motion to suppress evidence and terminate proceedings, because Samayoa-Martinez v. Holder, 558 F.3d 897, 901-02 (9th Cir. 2009), forecloses her contention that her statements to immigration officials at the border were obtained in violation of 8 C.F.R. § 287.3(c). Torres Mendoza urges us to reconsider our holding in Samayoa-Martinez, but a three-judge panel cannot overrule circuit precedent in the absence of an intervening decision from a higher court or en banc decision of this court. See Avagyan v. Holder, 646 F,3d 672, 677 (9th Cir. 2011). We also reject Torres Mendoza’s contention that de Rodriguez-Echeverria v. Mukasey, 634 F.3d 1047 (9th Cir. 2008) controls the result of her case.

To the extent Torres Mendoza contends the agency erred or violated her due process rights by admitting into evidence her statements to immigration officials, this contention fails because the statements were probative and their admission was fundamentally fair. See Espinoza v. INS, 45 F.3d 308, 310 (9th Cir. 1996) (“[Ijnfor-mation on an authenticated immigration form is presumed to be reliable in the absence of evidence to the contrary presented by the alien.”); Lata v. INS, 204 F.3d 1241, 1246 (9th Cir. 2000) (requiring error and substantial prejudice to prevail on a due process claim). ■

PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED. 
      
       This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.