| Bonilla
Wants Out Of ICE Jail in NJ As US Attorney
Opaquely Opposed SDNY Venue and Wins
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
March 30 -- Durel Jordon
Bonilla is in the Hudson
County Correctional Facility
in New Jersey, in connection
with an immigration removal
proceeding at the Varick
Street Immigration Court in
lower Manhattan. He is 23 and
from Belize; he has been in
the US for 17 years.
A
petition for a writ of habeus
corpus, seeking Bonilla's
release due to the Coronavirus
crisis, was filed before U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge Vernon S. Broderick, who
held a telephone conference on
March 27. Inner City Press
covered it, and on March 28
and 29 sought to view the US
Attorney's Office's filings
against the case on PACER but
was told, You do not have
permission to view this
document. Photo here.
Who does? Or did?
The March 27 conference was
largely about scheduling. But
Assistant US Attorney Michael
Byers, who had yet to file a
notice of appearance,
questioned venue, given that
the facility is in New Jersey.
Bonilla's lawyers from
Brooklyn Defenders, Hannah
McCrea and Alexandra Lampert,
pointed out that SDNY Judge
Analisa Torres had only the
day before on March 26 ordered
the release of ten
petitioners, in New Jersey.
And that Judge Alison Nathan
had cone the same earlier in
the day.
AUSA
Byers said that these two
judges' view on venue were
already known, but that Judge
Broderick's were not yet.
Well, even without seeing the
US Attorney's filings, they
now are: "CASE TRANSFERRED OUT
ELECTRONICALLY from the
U.S.D.C. Southern District of
New York to the United States
District Court - District of
District of New Jersey.
(rro)." The case is, or
was, Bonilla v. Decker, et
al., 20-cv-2483 (Broderick).
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