Vargas
Luis Angel Onate Vargas v. Kristi Noem, et al.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 LUIS ANGEL ONATE VARGAS, Case No. 26-cv-00310-BAS-JLB
Petitioner,
ORDER REQUIRING THE
v. GOVERNMENT TO RESPOND TO
PETITION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS
KRISTI NOEM, et al., CORPUS (ECF No. 1) Respondents. 16 17 On January 18, 2026, Petitioner Luis Angel Onate Vargas filed a Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241. (ECF No. 1.) Petitioner claims that he is being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in violation of the immigration laws and the Central District’s decision in Maldonado Bautista v. Noem, No. 5:25-CV- 01873-SSS-BFM, 2025 WL 3678485 (C.D. Cal. Dec. 18, 2025). (Id.) Having reviewed the Petition, the Court finds summary dismissal is unwarranted at this time. See Kourteva v. INS, 151 F. Supp. 2d 1126, 1128 (N.D. Cal. 2001) (“Summary dismissal is appropriate only where the allegations in the petition are vague or conclusory, palpably incredible, or patently frivolous or…