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1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 7 ALEX RIVERA GIORGES, et al., Case No. 25-cv-07683-NW

8 Plaintiffs,

ORDER DENYING PETITIONER-

9 v. PLAINTIFFS' MOTION FOR

PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION

10 POLLY KAISER, et al., Re: ECF No. 3 Defendants. 11

12 13 Before the Court are two unrelated, non-U.S. citizens who have lived continuously in the 14 United States since they were children, Mr. Alex Rivera Giorges (Rivera) from the age of eleven, 15 and Mr. Sokha Khan since he was two years old.1 Both men committed aggravated felonies while 16 in their twenties, served their sentences, and when paroled were immediately detained by 17 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) for removal proceedings. In a 2020 class action 18 lawsuit brought during the COVID-19 pandemic, a United States District Court judge determined 19 in a bond hearing that neither man was a danger to public safety or a flight risk, and both men 20 were released from ICE detention. For more than five years the men have had meaningful family 21 relationships,…