Man From Trinidad Who Entered US in 2015 Was Detained as Released from Rikers Files Habeas

Man From Trinidad Who Entered US in 2015 Was Detained as Released from Rikers Files Habeas by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack SDNY COURTHOUSE, Aug 12 – A man from Trinidad and Tobago who says he faces persecution there as a gay man filed a habeas corpus petition in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, where Inner City Press found it.    The petition says he entered the US in 2015 and resided in Brooklyn. He "had been serving a criminal sentence at the Rikers Island Correctional Facility when on the morning of his scheduled release he was arrested by ICE."   A habeas corpus petition was filed on his behalf in SDNY, and assigned to Judge Jeannette A. Vargas. The case is S.P. v. Genalo, et al., 1:26-cv-6891 (Vargas) *** Your support means a lot. As little as $5 a month helps keep us going and grants you access to exclusive bonus material on our Patreon page. Click here to become a patron. Feedback: Editorial [at] innercitypress.com Mail: Box 130222, Chinatown Station, NY NY 10013 Other, earlier Inner City Press are listed here, and some are available in the ProQuest service, and now on Lexis-Nexis.  Copyright 2006-2026 Inner City Press, Inc. To request reprint or other permission, e-contact Editorial [at] innercitypress.com