From The Oregonian: A federal judge in Oregon on Tuesday ordered the government to immediately release a 24-year-old asylum seeker from Mexico who was arrested in the hallway of Portland Immigration Court on June 5 and held in a detention center in Tacoma.
U.S. District Judge Michael H. Simon granted his habeas petition, finding that U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers had unlawfully and without justification detained the man, identified only as Y-Z-L-H, for the past 27 days.
Simon ordered the government not to rearrest the man without providing a lawful reason in a motion and request the judge’s expedited consideration.
Simon ruled from the bench after a 90-minute hearing but said he would issue a written ruling next week. The judge found the man’s detention violated the Administrative Procedure Act.
In a separate report, Fox News explained:
The migrant came to the U.S. in July 2023 and claimed he had been threatened by the violent Mexican cartel Familia Michoacana. U.S. officials let him stay temporarily on humanitarian grounds and he applied for asylum about a year ago.
On June 5, he went to Portland Immigration Court for an asylum hearing and asked for more time to find a lawyer.
The government moved to dismiss his asylum case and the judge granted the dismissal over his objection. The migrant is still appealing this decision. As soon as he walked out of the courtroom, he was arrested by ICE agents and taken to Tacoma detention facility in Washington state.
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