District of Massachusetts • 1:25-cv-13013

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Oct 15, 2025

PETITION for Writ of Habeas Corpus (2241) Filing fee: $ 5, receipt number AMADC-11299565 Fee status: Filing Fee paid., filed by Manuel Mesias Maza Maza. (Attachments: # 1 Civil Cover Sheet, # 2 Category Form, # 3 Exhibit Order Granting Bond)(Bremer, Hans) Modified on 10/15/2025 to edit docket text (CEH). (Entered: 10/15/2025)

#2

Oct 15, 2025

ELECTRONIC NOTICE of Case Assignment. District Judge Julia E. Kobick assigned to case. If the trial Judge issues an Order of Reference of any matter in this case to a Magistrate Judge, the matter will be transmitted to Magistrate Judge Jessica D. Hedges. (LBO) (Entered: 10/15/2025)

#3

Oct 15, 2025

District Judge Julia E. Kobick: ORDER CONCERNING SERVICE OF PETITION AND STAY OR TRANSFER OF REMOVAL entered.The answer or responsive pleading is due no later than October 22, 2025. (Attachments: # 1 *SEALED* Appendix) (Currie, Haley) (Entered: 10/15/2025)

#4

Oct 15, 2025

Copy re 1 Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus (2241) and 3 Order Concerning Service of Petition and Stay or Transfer of Removal mailed to Patricia Hyde, Michael Krol, Todd Lyons and Kristi Noem on 10/15/2025. (Currie, Haley) (Entered: 10/15/2025)

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Oct 15, 2025

General Order 19-02, dated June 1, 2019 regarding Public Access to Immigration Cases Restricted by Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 5.2(c). (EZG) (Entered: 10/15/2025)

Oct 15, 2025

Notice of Case Assignment

Oct 15, 2025

Copy Mailed

#6

Oct 16, 2025

Notice of Appearance

#7

Oct 22, 2025

Answer/Response to Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus - 2241

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Oct 23, 2025

District Judge Julia E. Kobick: ELECTRONIC ORDER entered. Petitioner Manuel Mesias Maza Maza, an Ecuadorian national, filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 seeking his immediate release. ECF 1, ¶¶ 1, 5. Maza Maza entered the United States around March 30, 2019. ECF 7-1, ¶ 7. On May 15, 2019, the Hunt County Sheriff's Office in Texas encountered Maza Maza at a vehicle stop and contacted U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ("ICE"). Id. That same day, ICE detained Maza Maza. Id. ¶ 8. Later in May 2019, ICE served Maza Maza with a Notice to Appear, charging him as inadmissible, and initiated removal proceedings against him by filing the Notice to Appear in Immigration Court. Id. ¶¶ 9, 11. ICE released Maza Maza on a $5,000 bond on May 21, 2019. Id. ¶ 10.On July 25, 2025, Maza Maza was arrested and detained by ICE in New Hampshire. Id. ¶¶ 12-13. The next day, ICE transferred him to Plymouth County Correctional Facility in Massachusetts, where he remains detained. Id. ¶¶ 13, 19. Maza Maza requested and received, on August 18, 2025, a bond hearing before an Immigration Judge. Id. ¶¶ 14-15. The Immigration Judge granted his release on a $8,500 bond. Id. ¶ 15. On August 19, 2025, respondents filed a Notice of ICE Intent to Appeal Custody Redetermination, triggering an automatic stay of Maza Maza's release under 8 C.F.R. § 1003.19(i)(2). Id. ¶ 16. The respondents then timely appealed the Immigration Judge's bond decision to the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA"), which had the effect of continuing the automatic stay of the order requiring Maza Maza's release on bond during the pendency of that appeal. Id. ¶ 17. The respondent's appeal with the BIA remains pending. Id. ¶ 18.Maza Maza filed his petition for a writ of habeas corpus on October 15, 2025, seeking his immediate release on the grounds that his ongoing detention deprives him of his procedural due process rights, in violation of the Fifth Amendment. ECF 1, at 3. The respondents contend that Maza Maza is lawfully detained under 8 U.S.C. § 1225(b)(2) and the automatic stay regulation, 8 C.F.R. §§ 1003.19(i)(2) and 1003.6(c). ECF 7, at 1, 4. They acknowledge, however, that this Court's decision in Sampiao v. Hyde, --- F. Supp. 3d ---, 2025 WL 2607924 (D. Mass. Sept. 9, 2025), "controls the result in this case." ECF 7, at 1. Recognizing that the "core questions of law in this case, and the challenges to the government's policy and practice, substantially overlap with those at issue in Sampiao," the respondents contend that "[s]hould the Court apply the same reasoning it did in that case to this one, the legal principles espoused . . . would likely warrant the same conclusion here." Id. at 4.The Court agrees that the legal questions at issue in this case are the same legal questions decided in Sampiao. The government has not pointed to any factual circumstances that differentiate this case from the analysis in Sampiao. As in Sampiao, the Immigration Judge could have granted Maza Maza bond only if the Judge concluded that Maza Maza was subject to the discretionary detention framework set forth in 8 U.S.C. § 1226(a), and not subject to the mandatory detention framework of 8 U.S.C. § 1225(b)(2). See 2025 WL 2607924, at *7-8. The government does not dispute here that the factual circumstances that led the Court to conclude that Sampiao was subject to Section 1226(a)'s discretionary framework also compel the conclusion that Maza Maza is subject to Section 1226(a). Second, for all the reasons explained in Sampiao, the Court likewise concludes that, as applied to Maza Maza, the automatic stay regulation violates his Fifth Amendment procedural due process rights, and he is therefore entitled to immediate release. See id. at *9-12. For the foregoing reasons, Maza Maza's petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241, ECF 1, is GRANTED. The respondents are ORDERED to release him from custody immediately upon his posting of the ordered bond, with no additional conditions beyond those imposed by the Immigration Judge in the August 18, 2025 order. ECF 1, ¶ 2; ECF 1-3. The respondents are further ORDERED to file a status report on or before October 28, 2025, confirming that Maza Maza has been released from custody. (Currie, Haley) (Entered: 10/23/2025)

Oct 23, 2025

Order

#9

Oct 27, 2025

STATUS REPORT regarding Petitioner's release from custody by Patricia Hyde, Michael Krol, Todd Lyons, Kristi Noem. (Khetarpal, Anuj) (Entered: 10/27/2025)

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Oct 27, 2025

District Judge Julia E. Kobick: JUDGMENT entered. (Currie, Haley) (Entered: 10/27/2025)