(HC) Thongvilay v. Field Office Director, San Francisco Field Office

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

PAMOT THONGVILAY, Case No. 1:23-cv-01605-CDB (HC)

Petitioner, ORDER TRANSFERRING CASE TO THE

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

v. (Doc. 1) FIELD OFFICE DIRECTOR, SAN FRANCISCO FIELD OFFICE, et al., 15 Respondents. 16

Petitioner Pamot Thongvilay (“Petitioner”) is a noncitizen detained by co-Respondent Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at the Mesa Verde Detention Center, Bakersfield, California, proceeding pro se with a petition for writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241. (Doc. 1). Petitioner challenges his continued detention by ICE in the light of an immigration judge’s order on July 12, 2023, to remove Petitioner from the United States. Id. Petitioner filed his petition on November 6, 2023, in the Northern District of California. On November 9, 2023, the assigned magistrate judge in that District ordered the case transferred to the Eastern District of California. (Doc. 2). The magistrate judge found that, because Petitioner is housed in a facility…