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

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 VICTOR MARTINEZ JIMENEZ, Case No. 23-cv-03566-SVK

Plaintiff,

ORDER ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF

v. HABEAS CORPUS

CURRENT OR ACTING FIELD OFFICE Re: Dkt. No.

DIRECTOR, SAN FRANCISCO FIELD

OFFICE, UNITED STATES

IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS

ENFORCEMENT, et al., Defendants.

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