Noem
Jose Angel C.L. v. Kristi Noem, Secretary of the United States Department of Homeland Security; Pamela Bondi, Attorney General of the United States; Sergio Albarran, Field Office Director of the San Francisco Immigration and Customs Enforcement Office; Tonya Andrews, Facility Administrator, Golden State Annex
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
BACKGROUND
20 Petitioner Jose Angel C.L. is a 57-year-old noncitizen who has been continuously present 21 in the United States since 1998. Doc. 1 at ¶ 18. His wife and two children are U.S. citizens. Id. 22 He has worked as a machine operator with the same company for the past twenty years. Id. 23 Petitioner was convicted of several criminal offenses while in the United States in 1993, but those 24 convictions were vacated in 2023. Id. ¶¶ 19, 21. Petitioner recently applied to adjust his status to 25 that of a lawful permanent resident. Id. ¶¶ 22–23. 26 On November 25, 2025, when he appeared for an interview with United States Citizenship 27 and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) in connection with his application for adjustment of status, 28 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) agents arrested him. Doc. 1 at ¶¶ 23–24. The agents stated that they had a warrant, but they refused to show the warrant to petitioner’s attorney. Id. ¶ 24; Doc. 1-1, Ex. E, Uribe Decl. at ¶ 5. Petitioner has since been detained at Golden State Annex, a detention facility in McFarland, California. Doc. 1 at ¶ 12. Several months before his detention, the Department of…