Legal Opinion
Beckford v. Lynch
District Court, W.D. New York
Decided March 3, 2016No. 15-CV-1020-JTCPublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
INTRODUCTION
JOHN T. CURTIN, United States District Judge
Petitioner Garfield Beckford, an alien under a final immigration order of removal from the United States, has filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241 seeking release from detention in the custody of the United States Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (collectively, “DHS”) at the Buffalo Federal Detention Facility in Batavia, New York, pending his removal. See Item 1. As direct: ed by this court’s order entered December 21, 2015 (Item 2), respondent1 has submitted an…
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