Extra: Man from China Detained by ICE Since Nov 17 Filed Habeas now 2 Lines of SDNY Cases Cited - more here, including on MDC cases
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by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack
SDNY Exclusive, Nov 25 – A man from China who entered the United States on November 9, 2024 though Tecate, California and was released has been detained by ICE since November 17, 2025.
That same day he filed a habeas corpus petition in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, where Inner City Press found it.
The case was assigned to SDNY Judge Jennifer H. Rearden, who set a November 25 hearing and a briefing schedule before that.
The US Attorney’s Office filed eight exhibits, back to the Tecate, California entry. On Sunday, November 23 the petitioner, represented by a lawyer on Chinatown’s Mott Street, replied that since detention is under 8 USC 1226(a) and not 8 USC 1225(b)(2), the petitioner should be released.
On November 25, Inner City Press live tweeted the hour-long proceeding. There are two lines of cases in the SDNY, it emerged, with Judges Castel and Koeltl sending petititioners back to exhaust their administrative remedies in the immigration court, and Judge Failli (and Ho) releasing petitioners.
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