United States ex rel. Pupo-Tordecilla v. Sava

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

HAIGHT, District Judge:

Relator Oscar Ramon Pupo-Tordeeilla petitioned this Court for a writ of habeas corpus to prevent respondent Charles Sava, the Acting District Director of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) for the District of New York, from deporting relator to Colombia. Counsel for relator brought his application on by order to show cause on January 13, 1989, in view of relator’s planned deportation later that day. After hearing counsel for the parties in chambers, I signed the writ, directed the filing and service of briefs, and set the case…