Soryadvongsa

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA Bounpheng SORYADVONGSA, Case No.: 25-cv-2663-AGS-DDL

Petitioner,

ORDER GRANTING HABEAS

v. PETITION (ECF 1) AND DENYING

PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION

Kristi NOEM, et al., (ECF 3) AS MOOT Respondents.

When immigration officials arrested petitioner, a regulation required them to “promptly” conduct an informal interview, so he could contest the basis for his detention. The key issue in this habeas petition is whether an interview 29 days after arrest qualifies as prompt under that regulation. It does not. BACKGROUND In 2002, an Immigration Judge ordered petitioner Bounpheng Soryadvongsa “removed from the United States to LAOS,” due to his criminal history. (ECF 6-2, at 3, 7; see also ECF 1, at 25). Yet a few months later, Immigration and Customs Enforcement released him “under an Order of Supervision,” because ICE “was unable to obtain a travel document” to Laos. (ECF 6-1, at 2.)…