Lema-Guaraca

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SANDRA ESTEFANIA LEMA- Case No. 19-cv-01846-BAS-KSC GUARACA, et al., ORDER DIRECTING RESPONSE Petitioners, TO MOTION FOR v. PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION [ECF No. 1] WILLIAM P. BARR, Attorney General of the United States, et al., 16 Respondents.

I. BACKGROUND On September 26, 2019, Petitioners Sandra Estefania Lema-Guaraca and her minor child, Derick Joshua Morocho Lema, filed a motion for a temporary restraining order requesting intervention by this Court to prevent their removal from the United States. (ECF No. 1 at ¶ 20.) Petitioners allege that they entered without inspection on June 28, 2019 and were improperly placed in the Migrant Protection Protocols (“MPP”) program. (Id. ¶ 3.) Petitioners have been paroled into the United States for a hearing with an immigration judge. (Id. ¶ 6.) Petitioners claim that the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) has 27 …