Carolina Ortiz Calderon had applied for asylum, for withholding of removal and for protection under the Convention against Torture, and had been released on her own recognisance. On her re-detention the court held, in its own words, that the government "may not re-detain Ortiz Calderon during the pendency of the proceedings before this Court without providing her with a pre-detention bond hearing before a neutral immigration judge", and that detention requires clear and convincing evidence of flight risk or danger together with a showing that no lesser conditions would suffice.
Caution A district court decision, binding on the parties only. Her protection claims are recorded in the order as background. What was decided is the detention question alone. There is no holding here about removal to a third country and the phrase does not appear in the decision.
Redetention Due process Bond hearing Custody hearing Asylum Withholding of removal CAT
The court's own text
Read from the preliminary injunction of 22 August 2025, obtained free from govinfo and CourtListener. 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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