| Man Claiming
Persecution in Georgia
Detained by ICE Must Be
Present as Jan 8 Hearing
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
Exclusive,
Jan 6 – A man from the nation
of Georgia was detained by ICE
on December 22 while attending
a required check-in with ICE
in 26 Federal Plaza.
On December
23 he filed a habeas corpus
petition in the U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York, where
Inner City Press found
it.
The
petition says that he has
resided in the US since 2014
after being granted
withholding of removal, for
which he had to "demonstrate
that it was more likely than
not he would be persecuted if
he were removed to Georgia."
The case was
referred to Judge Jennifer L.
Rochon.
On January 6
Judge Rochon docketed:
"Respondents are hereby
ordered, if requested by
Petitioner's counsel, to
arrange for Petitioner to meet
with counsel-in a private
setting suitable for
confidential attorney-client
communications - for at least
six hours prior to the
hearing. 4. Respondents are
further ordered to produce
Petitioner to appear before
this Court at the hearing
scheduled for January 8, 2026,
at 2:30 p.m... see
Ozturk, 136 F.4th at 402-03.
5. The Court directs each
side, by 5 p.m. on Wednesday,
January 7, 2026, to file a
letter on the docket of this
case identifying the
witness(es) it intends to
call, briefly synopsizing the
anticipated testimony of each
witness, and identifying the
exhibits it intends to offer."
Among the
request are immediate release
and attorney's fees.
In a
similar case on November 25,
Inner City Press live tweeted
an hour-long proceeding. There
are two lines of cases in the
SDNY, it emerged, with Judges
Castel and Koeltl sending
petititioners back to exhaust
their administrative remedies
in the immigration court, and
Judge Failli (and Ho)
releasing petitioners.
More on X for
Subscribers here
and Substack here
The case is
Vantsian v. Noem, et al.,
1:25-cv-10631 (Rochon)
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