RUBEN AVILES-DIAZ V. JEFF B. SESSIONS, No. 13-74250 (9th Cir. 2017)

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FILED NOT FOR PUBLICATION UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FEB 16 2017 MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT RUBEN AVILES-DIAZ, Petitioner, No. 13-74250 Agency No. A097-869-352 v. MEMORANDUM* JEFF B. SESSIONS, Attorney General, Respondent. On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals Submitted February 13, 2017** Pasadena, California Before: D.W. NELSON, TALLMAN, and N.R. SMITH, Circuit Judges. Ruben Aviles-Diaz, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitions for review of a decision by the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) affirming the Immigration Judge’s (IJ) admission of criminal conviction records in removal proceedings. Aviles-Diaz alleges the conviction records were not properly authenticated under 8 * 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). U.S.C. § 1229a(c)(3)(C) and 8 C.F.R. § 1003.41, and thus could not provide a basis for his removal under 8 U.S.C. § 1182(a)(6)(E)(i) for aiding and abetting alien smuggling. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(1), and we deny the petition for review. The IJ’s admission of conviction records downloaded from the Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) system1 did not violate AvilesDiaz’s due process rights. See Matter of J.R. Velazquez, 25 I. & N. Dec. 680, 683 (B.I.A. 2012). The records were certified by a Department of Homeland Security official as having been electronically downloaded from PACER, which the certification identified as “a federal repository site containing records from the United States District, Bankruptcy, and Appellate Courts.” The records on their face also indicate that they originate from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California. See Sinotes-Cruz v. Gonzalez, 468 F.3d 1190, 1196–97 (9th Cir. 2006). The government’s proffered conviction records thus contain sufficient indicia of reliability to be admissible as evidence of Aviles-Diaz’s removability. See id. at 1197; 8 C.F.R. § 1003.41(d). 1 PACER “is an electronic public access service that allows users to obtain case and docket information from [all] federal appellate, district, and bankruptcy courts.” Am. Civil Liberties Union v. U.S. Dep’t of Justice, 655 F.3d 1, 7 n.7 (D.C. Cir. 2011) (quoting PACER: Public Access to Court Electronic Records, http://www.pacer.gov). 2 The petition for review is DENIED. 3

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