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Leonardo BELLO-RAMIREZ, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
    No. 08-74987.
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Submitted Sept. 13, 2010.
    
    Filed Sept. 29, 2010.
    Smirna Ayala, Law Offices Of Ronzio & Associates, Los Angeles, CA, for Petitioner.
    OIL, Channah Farber, Michael Christopher Heyse, Trial, DOJ-U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Chief Counsel Ice, Office of the Chief Counsel, Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, for Respondent.
    Before: SILVERMAN, CALLAHAN, and N.R. SMITH, Circuit Judges.
    
      
       The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).
    
   MEMORANDUM

Leonardo Bello-Ramirez, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order summarily affirming an immigration judge’s decision finding him removable for participating in alien smuggling. Our jurisdiction is governed by 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review de novo claims of due process violations, Vasquez-Zavala v. Ashcroft, 324 F.3d 1105, 1107 (9th Cir.2003), and review for substantial evidence the agency’s findings of fact, Urzua Covarrubias v. Gonzales, 487 F.3d 742, 744 (9th Cir.2007). We deny in part and dismiss in part the petition for review.

The agency did not violate due process by according Bello-Ramirez’s Form 1-213 full weight because the form was probative and its admission was not fundamentally unfair, and the preparing officer testified at the hearing regarding the procedures for creating such forms. 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”).

Contrary to Bello-Ramirez’s contention, his Form 1-213 provides substantial evidence to support the agency’s conclusion that he is removable for knowingly engaging in alien smuggling in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1182(a)(6)(E)(i). See Urzua Covarrubias, 487 F.3d at 748-49.

We lack jurisdiction to review Bello-Ramirez’s contentions concerning 8 C.F.R. § 287.3(c) and his detention because he failed to exhaust these issues before the BIA. See Barron v. Ashcroft, 358 F.3d 674, 678 (9th Cir.2004).

Bello-Ramirez’s remaining contentions are not persuasive.

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