Case Name: Ligia Maria GUZMAN, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2010-06-09
Citations: 382 F. App'x 638
Docket Number: No. 06-70353
Parties: Ligia Maria GUZMAN, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before: CANBY, THOMAS, and W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 382
Pages: 638–639

Head Matter:
Ligia Maria GUZMAN, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 06-70353.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted May 25, 2010.
Filed June 9, 2010.
Maziar Razi, Esq., Los Angeles, CA, for Petitioner.
CAS-District Counsel, Office of The District Counsel Department of Homeland Security, San Diego, CA, Ronald E. Le-fevre, Chief Counsel, Office of The District Counsel Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, Terri J. Scadron, Esq., Genevieve Holm, Esq., DOJ-U.S. Department of Justice Civil Div./Office of Immigration Lit., Washington, DC, for Respondent.
Before: CANBY, THOMAS, and W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.
The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Ligia Maria Guzman, a native and citizen of Guatemala, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' ("BIA") order dismissing her appeal from an immigration judge's decision finding her removable for participating in alien smuggling. We have jurisdiction under 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 the petition for review.
Substantial evidence supports the agency's determination that Guzman participated in alien smuggling where the record contains Guzman's sworn statement admitting she knew the birth certificate she presented to the immigration officer did not belong to the passenger in her vehicle. See id. at 744.
The determination that Guzman's sworn statement was not coerced is also supported by substantial evidence. See Cue-vas-Ortega v. INS, 588 F.2d 1274, 1278 (9th Cir.1979) ("the bare assertion that a statement is involuntary is insufficient" to prove coercion); see also Espinoza v. INS, 45 F.3d 308, 310 (9th Cir.1995) ("The burden of establishing a basis for exclusion of evidence from a government record falls on the opponent of the evidence, who must come forward with enough negative factors to persuade the court not to admit it.")
Guzman's due process rights were not violated by the admission of the smuggled alien's Form 1-213 because the form was probative and its admission was fundamentally fair. See id. at 310 (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," and rejecting the argument that a Form 1-213 was inadmissible as hearsay).
PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provid ed by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.