| Honduran Woman Applying for
U Visa Moved by ICE to TX Now SDNY
Judge Orders Return
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
June 20 – A Honduran woman
with a pending U-Visa
application who was detained
by ICE on June 4 has filed a
habeas corpus petition in the
U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York
courthouse on June 6, where
Inner City Press found it.
The
complaint recounts how at a
required check-in at the ICE
contract who oversees her
supervised release she was
separated from her attorney.
It says she fled to the US in
2025, to escape "her abusive
husband in Honduras." In 2021
she complained to NYPD of an
attempted rape and cooperated;
she applied for a U-Visa.
On June 2
she got an automated message
to appear at the ISAP office
on June 3 on June 4. She did,
and was detained - and now
does not appear in the ICE
online detainee locator
system.
Her name is
Candida Ramirez Lopez.
On June 9, amid a
hiccup about deficient
pleading, her case was
assigned to District Judge
Jeannette A. Vargas.
Late on June 18
her counsel filed, in advance
of an oral argument, a memo
recounting days in holding
cells in 26 Federal Plaza,
sleeping on the floor, ferried
to NJ and now in the Houston
Contract Detention Facility.
On June 20, Judge
Vargas ordered her returned to
New York: "The Court hereby
ORDERS: 1) Respondents shall
transport Petitioner Candida
Ramirez Lopez (A Number
098-982-272) back to the
Southern District of New York
by Monday, June 23, 2025, and
immediately upon effectuating
her transfer, shall release
Petitioner from custody,
subject to the same terms of
supervised release that
pertained to Petitioner prior
to her detention by
Immigration and Customs
Enforcement ICE on June 4,
2025. 2) The Court has
reserved decision on the
aspect of Plaintiff's motion
for a TRO and habeas petition
that seeks a stay of removal.
During the pendency of the
Court's consideration of this
issue, however, Petitioner
shall not be removed from the
United States unless and until
the Court orders otherwise in
order to preserve the Court's
jurisdiction. A written
opinion setting forth the
basis for the Court's decision
will follow. SO ORDERED.
(Signed by Judge Jeannette A.
Vargas on 6/20/2025)
The case is
Ramirez Lopez v. Trump, et
al., 1:25-cv-4826 (Vargas)
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