Wofford
Rodrigo A. Paz Hernandez v. Minga Wofford, Field Office Director, Mesa Verde, Office of Detention and Removal, Polly Kaiser, Acting Field Office Director of the San Francisco Immigration and Customs Enforcement Office, Todd M. Lyons, Acting Director of United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Kristi Noem, Secretary of the United States Department of Homeland Security, and Pamela Bondi, Attorney General of the United States
Opinion
trial_court Opinion
1 2 3 4 5 6 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 7 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 8 9 RODRIGO A. PAZ HERNANDEZ, No. 1:25-cv-00986-KES-CDB (HC) 10 Petitioner,
ORDER GRANTING PRELIMINARY
11 v. INJUNCTION 12 MINGA WOFFORD, Field Office Director, Docs. 4, 13, 14 Mesa Verde, Office of Detention and 13 Removal, POLLY KAISER, Acting Field Office Director of the San Francisco 14 Immigration and Customs Enforcement Office, TODD M. LYONS, Acting Director 15 of United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, KRISTI NOEM, Secretary of 16 the United States Department of Homeland Security, and PAMELA BONDI, Attorney 17 General of the United States, 18 Respondents. 19 20 I. Background 21 This case concerns the detention of petitioner Rodrigo A. Paz Hernandez, a noncitizen 22 who has been in immigration removal proceedings since May 2024. Petitioner was briefly 23 detained upon his entry into the United States in May 2024 but was then released after 24 immigration officials determined that he was not a flight risk or danger to the community. 25 Notwithstanding that…