by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE, Nov 7 – A blind man from Ecuador who entered the US through Texas and was released upon request under the Biden Administration in January 2023 was detained in 26 Federal Plaza on November 4.
His sister filed a habeas corpus petition on his behalf.
It will be heard on November 7 in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, which Inner City Press closely covers.
His filing cites a decision by SDNY Judge George B. Daniels in Valdez v. Joyce, 25-cv-4627, 2025 WL 1707737 (June 18, 2005) that detentions such as his are "clear violation[s] of due process rights."
On November 6 the US Attorney's Office wrote in that the petitioner is being held in 26 Federal Plaze pending arrangements for his transfer to the Orange County Jail in Goshen, NY (the only ICE detention facility within the SDNY).
On November 7 the AUSA asked Judge Carter to allow ICE to move father and his son together to a facility outside of SDNY, saying the Orange County jail could not take both.
Judge Carter said he would not take substantive action until the father has a lawyers, and an interpreter. An interpreter was arraigned but then the son, not the father, was produced. So, weekend in 26 Fed. Thread.
The case is Chalco-Beltran v. Francis, et al., 1:25-cv-9205 (Carter)
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