The petitioner holds a final administrative order of removal and has proceedings on withholding of removal and protection under the Convention against Torture on foot. What the court decided was narrower than that background suggests. It enjoined and restrained the government from re-detaining him without notice and a hearing before an immigration judge, held before he is taken into custody, to evaluate whether re-detention is warranted on grounds of flight risk or danger to the community.
Caution A district court decision, binding on the parties only. The petitioner’s protection claims form the background to the case and are not what was decided. There is no holding here about removal to a third country. The case appears on the public docket under the petitioner’s full name, Reyes v. Kaiser; the anonymised form used here is the one the court uses in the caption of its own order.
Redetention Due process Bond hearing Custody hearing Withholding of removal CAT
The court's own text
Read from the preliminary injunction of 17 July 2025. This decision reached the Coalition through a secondary research memorandum that listed it among decisions about removal to a third country. It is not one. It is recorded here as what it is, a decision about re-detention, because that is the step that immediately precedes a third-country removal and the register would be incomplete without this line of cases. The mislabelling is noted rather than repeated.
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