Filed: Apr. 19, 2017
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Summary: NOT FOR PUBLICATION FILED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS APR 19 2017 MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT SANDRA VICTORIA CIRIGNANO, AKA No. 15-73262 Victoria Sandra Cirignano, Agency No. A059-937-252 Petitioner, v. MEMORANDUM * JEFFERSON B. SESSIONS III, Attorney General, Respondent. On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals Submitted April 11, 2017** Before: GOULD, CLIFTON, and HURWITZ, Circuit Judges. Sandra Victoria Cirignano, a nativ
Summary: NOT FOR PUBLICATION FILED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS APR 19 2017 MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT SANDRA VICTORIA CIRIGNANO, AKA No. 15-73262 Victoria Sandra Cirignano, Agency No. A059-937-252 Petitioner, v. MEMORANDUM * JEFFERSON B. SESSIONS III, Attorney General, Respondent. On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals Submitted April 11, 2017** Before: GOULD, CLIFTON, and HURWITZ, Circuit Judges. Sandra Victoria Cirignano, a native..
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NOT FOR PUBLICATION FILED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS APR 19 2017
MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
U.S. COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
SANDRA VICTORIA CIRIGNANO, AKA No. 15-73262
Victoria Sandra Cirignano,
Agency No. A059-937-252
Petitioner,
v. MEMORANDUM *
JEFFERSON B. SESSIONS III, Attorney
General,
Respondent.
On Petition for Review of an Order of the
Board of Immigration Appeals
Submitted April 11, 2017**
Before: GOULD, CLIFTON, and HURWITZ, Circuit Judges.
Sandra Victoria Cirignano, a native and citizen of El Salvador, petitions for
review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order dismissing her appeal
from an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) removal order. Our jurisdiction is governed by
8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review de novo the denial of a motion to suppress and claims
*
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.
**
The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision
without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).
of constitutional violations. Martinez-Medina v. Holder,
673 F.3d 1029, 1033 (9th
Cir. 2011). We review for substantial evidence the agency’s factual findings,
applying the standards governing adverse credibility determinations created by the
REAL ID Act. Shrestha v. Holder,
590 F.3d 1034, 1039-40 (9th Cir. 2010). We
deny in part and dismiss in part the petition for review.
Substantial evidence supports the agency’s adverse credibility finding on the
grounds that Cirignano’s testimony was internally inconsistent and implausible.
See 8 U.S.C. § 1229a(c)(4)(B)-(C);
Shrestha, 590 F.3d at 1039 (detailing REAL ID
Act adverse credibility standards).
The agency did not err or violate due process by denying Cirignano’s motion
to suppress and terminate proceedings, where she did not demonstrate that the
government’s evidence, including the Form I-213 and Form I-877, was obtained
through an egregious violation of the Fourth Amendment. See Lopez-Rodriguez v.
Mukasey,
536 F.3d 1012, 1018 (9th Cir. 2008) (a Fourth Amendment violation is
egregious if evidence is obtained by a deliberate violation of the Fourth
Amendment, or by conduct a reasonable officer should have known is in violation
of the Constitution); Lata v. INS,
204 F.3d 1241, 1246 (9th Cir. 2000) (requiring
error and substantial prejudice to prevail on a due process claim). We reject
Cirignano’s contention that the agency applied an incorrect legal standard.
The agency did not err by admitting the government’s evidence, where the
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documents submitted were probative, their admission was fundamentally fair, and
Cirignano did not demonstrate that they were inaccurate or obtained by coercion.
See Sanchez v. Holder,
704 F.3d 1107, 1109 (9th Cir. 2012); Espinoza v. INS,
45
F.3d 308, 310 (9th Cir. 1995) (“[I]nformation on an authenticated immigration
form is presumed to be reliable in the absence of evidence to the contrary
presented by the alien.”).
We lack jurisdiction to review Cirignano’s unexhausted contentions
regarding the IJ’s adverse credibility analysis and the right to cross-examine,
because she failed to exhaust these issues before the BIA. See Barron v. Ashcroft,
358 F.3d 674, 678 (9th Cir. 2004).
PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED in part; DISMISSED in part.
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