Martinez Jimenez v. Current or Acting Field Office Director, San Francisco Field Office, United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement

1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 7 VICTOR MARTINEZ JIMENEZ, Case No. 23-cv-03566-SVK

8 Plaintiff,

ORDER ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF

9 v. HABEAS CORPUS

10 CURRENT OR ACTING FIELD OFFICE Re: Dkt. No. 1

DIRECTOR, SAN FRANCISCO FIELD

11 OFFICE, UNITED STATES

IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS

12 ENFORCEMENT, et al., 13 Defendants.

14 For more than fifteen months, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has 15 detained Petitioner Victor Martinez Jimenez without conducting an individualized bond hearing to 16 consider whether his detention is necessary to protect the public’s safety or ensure his availability 17 for deportation at the end of his removal proceedings, which are ongoing. ICE detains Petitioner 18 pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1226(c), which mandates the detention pending removal of people who 19 have been convicted of certain crimes. ICE is holding Petitioner at a private detention center that 20 is operated by The GEO Group, Inc. and located outside of the Northern District but overseen by 21 …