Alfaro-Ramirez
Alfaro-Ramirez v. Current or Acting Field Office Director, San Francisco Fiield Office
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
INTRODUCTION
Francisco Bladimir Alfaro-Ramirez seeks federal habeas relief from his detention in an immigration facility in McFarland, California, which lies in the Eastern District of California. The petition should be filed in the Eastern District because that is the district in which petitioner is housed and wherein his immediate custodian sits. Accordingly, the petition is DISMISSED without prejudice to Alfaro-Ramirez filing a petition in Eastern District in which he names his immediate custodian as respondent.
BACKGROUND
Alfaro-Ramirez states he is being held in the Golden State Annex (GSA) in McFarland, California, which lies in the Eastern District of California, pending removal proceedings. (Pet., Dkt. No. 1 at 1.) He names as respondents Alejandro Mayorkas, the Secretary of Homeland Security; Merrick Garland, the Attorney General of the United States; Moisos Becerra, the Field Office Director of ICE “with administrative jurisdiction over Petitioner’s case”; and Minga Wofford, the warden of the Golden State Annex, a private facility working under contract with the Government. (Id. at 3-4.) He asks for release or an order directing immigration authorities to hold a…