| Augustine Opposed
Deportation to Haiti Citing Torture Now Habeus
Before SDNY Judge Liman
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY
COURTHOUSE, June 25 –
With little public notice
there was on June 25 a
proceeding on an emergency
habeus corpus petition by
Daniel Augustin suing William
Barr and Chad Wolf, held at 5
pm before U.S. District Court
for the Southern District of
New York Judge Lewis J. Liman.
Inner City Press covered it.
The lack of
notice did not appear to be
for an attempt to skirt
transparency but rather a fast
response to a request for
emergency
action.
Augustine is facing
deportation to Haiti based on
in part on robbing a pair of
sandals; he cited Convention
Against
Torture.
The habeus
petition says "Augustin
applied to the Immigration
Judge for protection under the
Convention Against Torture
based on his condition as a
person with serious mental
illness, a substantial
criminal history, and no
resources in Haiti."
Judge Liman asked
why it was filed now.
The petititoner's lawyer
cited shortness of
breath and COVID-19 in Bergen
County Jail where he is
detained.
A briefing
schedule was set. A threshold
issue, that's arisen in other
cases Inner City Press has
been covering about the New
Jersey jails ICE uses, is
whether the case should in in
NJ instead of SDNY.
The case is
Augustin v. Decker, et al.,
20-cv-4862 (Liman).
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