Legal Opinion
Straker v. Jones
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided December 10, 2013No. 13 Civ. 6915(PAE)PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION & ORDER
PAUL A. ENGELMAYER, District Judge.
Myles Straker, an alien, is currently detained in a New York State prison pursuant to a detainer issued by the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) while proceedings to remove him from the United States are underway. DHS1 asserts that it has the authority (indeed, the duty) to detain him under the mandatory detention statute, § 236(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (“INA”), 8 U.S.C. § 1226(c), which applies to certain criminal aliens.2 Straker argues that the mandatory detention statute does not apply to him, and that DHS’s only…
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3Cited by15 opinions
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