Meza

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA SAN JOSE DIVISION 7 BRENDA MEZA, Case No. 18-cv-02708-BLF

Petitioner,

ORDER GRANTING RESPONDENTS’

v. MOTION TO DISMISS PETITION AS

MOOT

ERIK BONNAR, et al., [Re: ECF 35] Respondents.

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15 Petitioner Brenda Meza (“Meza”) was ordered removed from the United States to Guatemala in 2007 as a result of her criminal convictions, but she was granted withholding of removal. In 2016, the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) initiated new removal proceedings, seeking to terminate Meza’s withholding of removal based on her additional criminal convictions. DHS detained Meza for approximately thirteen months, until an Immigration Judge (“IJ”) released her on bond pursuant to the Ninth Circuit’s decision Rodriguez III, which held that applicable immigration statutes require periodic bond hearings for detained noncitizens. See Rodriguez v. Robbins, 804 F.3d 1060 (9th Cir. 2015) (“Rodriguez III”),…