Decisions

Tang v. Bondi

W.D. Wash. · September 11, 2025

Court W.D. Wash.
Decided September 11, 2025
Docket 2:25-cv-01473-RAJ-TLF
Citation 2025 WL 2637750
Judge Richard A. Jones, United States District Judge
Disposition Relief granted in part
Nationality Stateless (a 1983 adjustment of status document lists 'stateless'; born in a refugee camp in the Philippines; the removal order designates Vietnam)

Total detention exceeding six months is not presumptively reasonable, and the petitioner is likely to show no significant likelihood of removal to Vietnam because he facially fails the memorandum of understanding's eligibility conditions; release ordered.

Caution Preliminary injunction on likelihood of success, entered while the habeas petition and the government's motion to dismiss remained pending; the request for an order barring future arrest was denied; the two supplied files are duplicates of the same order and are merged into this one entry; the statelessness finding rests on a 1983 document and the petitioner's testimony, and the court decided the point only on likelihood of success.

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