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Meanwhile, during all the delays, ICE agents are pressing detained individuals to self-deport, claiming they'll never get out otherwise. All AFTER the Court has ordered their release. And then when they are release, they're dumped on the side of the road, in 0° weather, in Crocs.
And while all of this is happening, ICE agents are telling him to self-deport because he's got no chance to get out of there other than self-deport, so he's being deprived of access, and this is all in his affidavit. Myself and his immigration attorney, who's here in the courtroom today, were not able to talk to him. His immigration attorney in particular made diligent efforts to ensure compliance with the court order, and these are e-mails that are in Oscar's case. I think you've seen these. We're trying to get ahold of him. We're trying to get access to him. We're trying to bring him home. And, meanwhile, he is sleeping on the floor, if he gets to sleep at all, and he's being lied to, denied access to phone calls to call his loved ones or his attorneys. I would encourage Your Honor to read this declaration, and I would defer to the Court if you would like me to submit it formally in Oscar's own case. We shouldn't need a specific court order to ask the DOJ not to put somebody's life in danger. But I can't tell you how many clients I've had to go find who were left on the side of the road with no coat, no phone, no wallet, no hat. They're wearing Crocs or whatever they got pulled out of their house or their car while they were wearing, and it's zero degrees outside. And we shouldn't need a court order saying, Don't put someone's life in danger. But here we are, and we need court orders -- or orders to show cause to show compliance with court orders that shouldn't have had to have been issued in the first place. I think this would be a different story if these habeas petitions were frivolous, but we're filing so many because there are just so many people being detained without any semblance of a lawful basis.
February 4, 2026 at 10:02 PM