| Honduran Woman
Detained by ICE Since Sept 8 Is
Ordered Freed by SDNY Judge
Engelmayer
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
Nov 24 – A woman
from Honduras taken into ICE
custody on September 8 filed a
habeas corpus petition in the
U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York,
where Inner City Press has
been covering the
case(s).
SDNY Judge Paul
A. Engelmayer on October 2
ordered the petitioner, Helen
Sahari Funes Gamez, returned
from Louisiana to New York for
a hearing that he conducted
between October 17 and 23.
He found that she
had entered the US in 2004 at
age 10 with her mother,
through Brownsville,
Texas.
She was
deported in 2009, but returned
in 2023 through Eagle Pass,
Texas, with her husband and
three year old daughter. She
now also has a son, a US
citizen. Her husband and
daughter were granted asylum
by Immigration Judge Thomas
Mungoven.
Coming to
26 Federal Plaza for her
hearing in September, she was
detained by ICE. On
November 24 in a 50 page order
Judge Engelmayer ordered her
released, on due process
violations, but denied other
relief.
The case is Funes
Gamez v. Francis, et al.,
1:25-cv-7429 (Engelmayer)
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