NOWCRJ, Oct. 11, 2016 - "On Tuesday, October 11, 2016, the New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice (NOWCRJ) filed a groundbreaking habeas corpus lawsuit (PDF) against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to free Daniel Acosta Sarmiento, a petitioner...
David Isaacson, Sept. 13, 2016 - " On August 29, 2016, the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued its decision in Castro v. Dept. of Homeland Security , a consolidated set of habeas corpus petitions brought by asylum-seekers subject to expedited removal...
"Plaintiff-Petitioner (hereinafter, Plaintiff) Oscar Ivan Olivas is a 45-year-old natural-born U.S. citizen who Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials unlawfully exiled to Mexico almost three years ago. Mr. Olivas has repeatedly attempted to avail...
"[T]he facts show that Petitioner was not detained by ICE until 11 months after her arrest and 6 months after criminal conviction. Since there is no evidence to suggest that Petitioner hid from immigration authorities or did anything other than return to...
Sheikh v. Choate "Pending before the Court are the Verified Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241, ECF No. 1; Petitioner’s Motion for Temporary Restraining Order, ECF No. 3; and Petitioner’s Unopposed Motion for Oral Arguments,...
Diana G. Li, Stanford Law Review, April 2022 "It is well established that Congress wields plenary power over the admission of noncitizens at the border. But when the government removes noncitizens who have already entered the country, including those who...
Judah Lakin reports: "We ( Lakin & Wille and Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Asian Law Caucus ) wanted to share some good news heading into the weekend. Judge Freeman issued a decision in our post-Preap as-applied challenge to 1226c for someone who was...
Jan. 10, 2022 Press Release "Immigrant Legal Defense and the University of Chicago Immigrants’ Rights Clinic have filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus on behalf of Omar Ameen seeking his immediate release from immigration custody. Mr. Ameen has been...
Judah Lakin writes: "We wanted to share an exciting decision we received on Friday from Judge Freeman in the Northern District of California on Friday granting our client a bond hearing. We, together with our co-counsel Jenny Zhao and Monica Ramsy from Asian...
Bello-Reyes v. Gaynor "This case requires us to consider whether the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Nieves v. Bartlett, 139 S. Ct. 1715 (2019), applies to a noncitizen’s claim that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) unconstitutionally retaliated...
Aguasvivas v. Pompeo "The Dominican Republic requests Cristian Starling Aguasvivas for extradition. After a federal magistrate judge certified Aguasvivas as eligible for extradition, Aguasvivas filed a habeas corpus petition in the District of Rhode Island...
Velasco Lopez v. Decker "The Government appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Carter, J.), granting Carlos Alejandro Velasco Lopez’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Velasco Lopez was detained...
Siahaan v. Madrigal "Siahaan did not commit a crime, nor did he cross the border illegally. He has lived here peacefully and productively for thirty years and is neither a flight risk nor a danger to the community. But ICE still wants to deport him immediately...
Onosamba-Ohindo v. Barr "Petitioners/plaintiffs Junior Onosamba-Ohindo (“Class Petitioner”) and Antonio Lopez Agustin (“Subclass Petitioner”) (collectively “Petitioners”) have filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 and complaint...
Aditi Shah, Lawfare, July 2, 2020 "On June 25, the Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that Vijayakumar Thuraissigiam, an asylum-seeker, does not have a constitutional right to habeas corpus review in federal court of his claims that the government violated his constitutional...