The Third Circuit on Wednesday restored a Honduran native's bid to be released from immigration detention, ruling in a precedential opinion that a New Jersey federal judge incorrectly found he could not hear the application since the detainee had been transferred from a Garden State jail to a Louisiana facility.
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ICE Transfers Muddle Honduran Man s 3rd Circ. Habeas Bid
Law360 (April 21, 2021, 5:32 PM EDT) The Third Circuit on Wednesday questioned the government s argument that the habeas petition of a Honduran citizen facing deportation should have been filed where he s currently detained in Louisiana, given that he s been shuffled around to facilities in multiple states over the past six years.
The petitioner, whose name appears as both Angel Argueta Anariba and Anguel Argueta Anabria in appellate briefs, has been transferred at least 14 times since he s been in Immigration Customs Enforcement custody after serving prison time for a violent assault conviction. Argueta, as he was referred to in court, wants to undo a New Jersey federal judge s.
“Dying of Cold”: ICE Detainees Freezing in Southern Prisons
This article features Government Accountability Project and was originally published here.
IN LOUISIANA AND Texas, immigrants seeking asylum are facing dire conditions in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers hit by this week’s extreme cold. At the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas, advocates say parents and children have been living with overflowing toilets, thirst, poor hygiene, and heat that fades in and out. Twenty miles away, at the South Texas ICE Processing Center in Pearsall, advocates say detainees who complained about the cold faced retaliation. At the Pine Prairie ICE Processing Center in Louisiana, a detainee interviewed by The Intercept reports that the segregation unit, akin to solitary confinement, has no heat.