Wofford
J.O.L.R. v. Minga Wofford, Mesa Verde ICE Processing Center Facility Administrator; Sergio Albarran, 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; Pamela Bondi, Attorney General of the United States
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
J.O.L.R., No. 1:25-cv-01241-KES-SKO (HC) Petitioner,
ORDER GRANTING PRELIMINARY
v. INJUNCTION MINGA WOFFORD, Mesa Verde ICE Doc. 3 Processing Center Facility Administrator; SERGIO ALBARRAN, 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; PAMELA BONDI, Attorney General of the United States, Respondents. 19 Petitioner J.O.L.R. is a 23-year-old asylum seeker from Guatemala who was detained but then released by immigration officials upon his entry into the United States. Immigration officials released him after determining that he was neither a flight risk nor a danger to the community and that he was entitled to file an asylum application, and they placed him in removal proceedings under 8 U.S.C. § 1229a. Like many others recently, petitioner was…