Riego
Riego v. Current or Acting Field Office Director, San Francisco Field Office, United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
VENANCIO ESTEBAN RIEGO,
Case No. 24-cv-01860-DMR (PR) Petitioner, 8 v. ORDER OF TRANSFER
CURRENT OR ACTING FIELD OFFICE
DIRECTOR, SAN FRANCISCO FIELD
OFFICE, UNITED STATES
IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT, et al., 12 Respondents. 13 Venancio Esteban Riego, a non-citizen detainee currently confined at the Golden State Annex (“GSA”) in McFarland, California, filed a pro se petition for writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241, challenging his prolonged detention without a hearing as unconstitutional. Dkt. 1 at 2. Petitioner names several Respondents, including the Field Office Director of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) located in San Francisco, as the one “responsible for carrying out ICE’s detention operations” at GSA and for “adjudicating requests for release from those detained there.” Id. at 3. Petitioner cites several cases filed in the Northern District of California in which judges in…