Loc Minh Nguyen v. Warden, et al.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA || Loc Minh NGUYEN, Case No.: 25-cv-2441-AGS-MMP Petitoner,) ORDER GRANTING AMENDED 5 || V. HABEAS PETITION (ECF 13) || WARDEN, et al., Respondents. 8 Petitioner Loc Minh Nguyen seeks a writ of habeas corpus releasing him from what claims is his unlawful immigration detention. Specifically, he alleges that Immigration |/and Customs Enforcement violated its own regulatory mandate to “conduct an initial ||informal interview promptly” after his arrest, see 8 C.F.R. § 241.13@)(3), when it waited ||months to interview him. This Court recently granted a habeas petition after concluding 14 || that “an interview 29 days after arrest” does not qualify as “prompt” under that regulation |/and that the resulting detention was unlawful. Soryadvongsa v. Noem, No. 25-cv-2663- 16 |} AGS-DDL, 2025 WL 3126821, at * (S.D. Cal. Nov. 8, 2025). For those same reasons, 17 || Nguyen’s detention is unlawful, and his habeas petition is…