(HC)Tobar

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 WALTER APARICIO TOBAR, Case No. 24-cv-08550-SK (PR)

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CURRENT OR ACTING FIELD OFFICE

DIRECTOR, et al.,

Respondent.

I. Petitioner Walter Aparicio Tobar, a citizen of Guatemala, filed a pro se petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 challenging his prolonged detention by the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at the Golden State Annex detention center in McFarland, California. II. The federal habeas statute expressly limits the power of district courts to grant habeas writs to “within their respective jurisdictions.” 28 U.S.C. § 2241(a). “The plain language of the habeas statute thus confirms the general rule that for core habeas petitions challenging present physical confinement, jurisdiction lies in only one district: the district of confinement.” Rumsfeld v.…