Hurtado-Jimenez
Hurtado-Jimenez v. Holder
Opinion
Lead Opinion
MEMORANDUM **
Jose Alfredo Hurtado-Jimenez, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ order summarily affirming an immigration judge’s removal order. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review de novo questions of law, Montero-Martinez v. Ashcroft, 277 F.3d 1137, 1145 (9th Cir.2002), and we deny the petition for review.
We reject Hurtado-Jimenez’s contention that United States v. Baron-Medina, 187 F.3d 1144 (9th Cir.1999) was wrongly decided. Hurtado-Jimenez’s contention that the agency’s decision violated due process therefore fails. See Lata v. INS, 204 F.3d 1241, 1246 (9th Cir.2000) (requiring error for a due process violation).
We agree with the agency that the document submitted by the government to prove the existence of Hurtado-Jimenez’s conviction was properly certified. See 8 C.F.R § 1003.41(a)(4). Hurtado-Jimenez’s contention that this document failed to identity him sufficiently is unpersuasive. See Espinoza v. INS, 45 F.3d 308, 310 (9th Cir.1995) (“The burden of establishing a basis for exclusion of ... a government record falls on the opponent of the evidence, who must come forward with enough…