your honor, i believe that the application is about pursuing the process that has been held out to him. the main point here is that at this point, he s boarding the plane with four ice agents. as soon as they lift off, there s just no coming back from that obviously. but at 7:45, the judge is like, listen. i m giving an order now that i want him taken off the plane. the order is effective as of now as i m saying it, so please convey that to ice so that there s no danger of mr. sillah being removed. i want to make sure that s all clear. it is, your honor. i have received confirmation that ice is aware of the court s order. very good. thank you, your honor. gregory and i were in the front seat and we were like high fiving. i was like, oh my god, that s so amazing. they guarantee baba to stay. everybody fall on the floor. everybody said, oh, thank god. that day yeah, i don t know how can i explain the day. it was a very good day for us.
i remember one day he asked me the number. he was gonna call my wife or somebody to pack my stuff. he s going to deport me. so after he left, that day i was very sad thinking about my family. i m not worried about i worry about myself, but not like the worry about my family. because i know she s here by herself with the five kids. plus, i know that right away, she s going to lose her job when i left. because she cannot be able to call out every day, every other week. i feel so good now, very happy with my family. [children giggling] they always smile. you see the plane, and they will be laughing. gregory copeland, sarah gillman. thank you, chairman menchaca. sarah and i are part of a new organization. our model is a rapid response model that we developed at the legal aid society
everything we do is in uncharted territory. so it s impossible not to be learning a lot as we go along. we didn t get a stay in new york so now we re going to go to new jersey. and when we get to court, i m going to go to the clerk s office and ask that we be heard. and maybe we ll get judge salas so we can do mrs. [bleep] case and then we ll do mr. [bleep] case. do a twofer. and i don t know what s going to happen with mr. [bleep].. i m assuming he s going to be deported tomorrow if we don t get a stay. we ll do the best we can. so we ll see. god, i hope we win today. i mean, that ll be epic. your honor, there are significant questions here regarding actions taken by the government and whether or not they were legal. habeas corpus proved to be like the most effective defense against unlawful government conduct. gregory and sarah are using it to put pressure on the government to say, you have to have a valid reason for holding this person and depriving them of their liberty.
gregory copeland. he was a friend i had no backing college. i saw what he was doing in wanted to find more. i invited my colleague, betsy, along to the press conference. that first day that we went to go see what they were doing was the opening shot of our film. we simply got swept away with the stories of the families that they were fighting for. the innovation that they were using, legally, and the success that they were having. they were changing the way that people were fighting back against deportation and they were winning. it was so inspiring that we wanted to shine a light on the stories inspire others to fight back, even when it seems impossible. can you talk to our viewers about the meaning behind the title of this documentary, guerrila habeas. i am a former trial lawyer. habeas corpus. i get it. why the combination of those two particular words, guerrila habeas? it is, definitely, a