Valencia-Ayala

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 ELIZEO VELAZQUEZ-HERNANDEZ, Case No.: 3:20-cv-2060-DMS-KSC et al.,

ORDER GRANTING MOTION FOR

Plaintiffs-Petitioners, TEMPORARY RESTRAINING v. ORDER

U.S. IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS

15 ENFORCEMENT, et al., 16 Defendants-Respondents. 17 Plaintiffs in this case challenge the United States Border Patrol’s practice of using the federal courthouse as a preferred location to arrest noncitizens appearing for court hearings in order to place them in civil deportation proceedings. For the past several years, the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”), through its sub-agency United States Border Patrol, has taken into civil immigration custody many individuals who, like Plaintiffs, appear on bond for their court trials to contest a misdemeanor illegal entry charge. Regardless of outcome, these individuals are taken into immigration custody by Border Patrol at the conclusion of their trials. Plaintiffs seek a temporary restraining…