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Fernando SANCHEZ-DIAZ; Maria D. Cortez-Sanchez, Petitioners, v. John ASHCROFT, Attorney General, Respondent.
    No. 02-71106.
    Agency Nos. [ AXX-XXX-XXX ], [ AXX-XXX-XXX ].
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Submitted Feb. 17, 2004.
    
    Decided Feb. 23, 2004.
    
      Walter Rafael Pineda, Law Offices of Walter Rafael Pineda, San Francisco, CA, for Petitioners.
    Regional Counsel, Laguna Niguel, CA, Ronald E. LeFevre, Chief Legal Officer, Office of the District Counsel, San Francisco, CA, Regina Byrd, Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Respondent.
    Before FERNANDEZ, W. FLETCHER, and TALLMAN, Circuit Judges.
    
      
      This panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).
    
   MEMORANDUM

Fernando Sanchez-Diaz and Maria D. Cortez-Sanchez (the “petitioners”), husband and wife, natives and citizens of Mexico, petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order denying their application for asylum and withholding of removal, and their motion to terminate removal proceedings. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review de novo purely legal questions and claims of due process violations, Vasquez-Zavala v. Ashcroft, 324 F.3d 1105, 1107 (9th Cir.2003), and we deny the petition.

The petitioners’ contention that the BIA’s streamlining decision fails to comport with the requirements of due process is foreclosed by Falcon Carriche v. Ashcroft, 350 F.3d 845, 850-51 (9th Cir.2003).

The petitioners’ contention, that because they filed their application for asylum before the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act took effect, they had a settled expectation that denial of their application would result in deportation proceedings, is foreclosed by Vasquez-Zavala, 324 F.3d at 1108.

PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED. 
      
       This disposition is not appropriate for publication and may not be cited to or by the courts of this circuit except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.