DOJ giving migrants 'no less than 12 hours' to indicate they intend to contest AEA removal
Source: ABC News
April 24, 2025, 6:10 PM
The Trump administration is giving individuals who are given a notice of removal under the Alien Enemies Act "no less than 12 hours" to indicate their intent to file a habeas petition to contest their deportation, and "no less than 24 hours" to file it, according to a newly unsealed document.
The sworn declaration by Carlos Cisneros, the assistant field office director for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, was unsealed by a federal judge in the Southern District of Texas who temporarily blocked the government from deporting Venezuelans held in the El Valle Detention Center in Texas earlier this month.
"The alien is given a reasonable amount of time, and no less than 12 hours, including the ability to make a telephone call, to indicate or express an intent to file a habeas petition," Cisneros said in the declaration. "If the alien does not express any such intention, then ICE may proceed with the removal."
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"If the alien does express an intent to file a habeas petition, the alien is given a reasonable amount of time, and no less than 24 hours, to actually file that petition," Cisneros said.
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