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.
Redetention Zadvydas
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