M-A-C-C- came to the United States from Mexico in March 2022, because his partner’s family was targeted and harmed, some killed, by a cartel. He built a stable life with his partner and two of his children. He held steady employment as a restaurant worker and maintained a fixed address. His life was turned upside down on the morning of November 29, 2025, as he was pulled over and detained by ICE agents on his way to work. 

He was not the subject of a criminal investigation, he was lawfully obeying all the traffic laws when two unmarked ICE vehicles began following him closely for several minutes before activating their lights to stop him. As a matter of fact, he has no criminal history, and the only time he has ever been arrested was by ICE. The ICE agents who stopped him did not present a warrant and did not explain the reason for the stop. ICE arrested Petitioner unlawfully as part of Operation Black Rose, a DHS operation in which ICE agents made unprovoked, destabilizing community sweeps throughout Oregon. DHS agents then rapidly transported him out of the District of Oregon to the immigration detention center in Tacoma, Washington, where they have purported to hold him in “mandatory” detention. 

Innovation Law Lab filed a habeas petition for M-A-C-C-. U.S. District Judge Tiffany M. Cartwright granted petitioner's habeas petition and ordered "Within fourteen days of receiving Petitioner M.A.C.C.’s request for a bond hearing, Respondents must either release him or provide him a bond hearing under 8 U.S.C. § 1226(a)." On April 27, 2026, Petitioner appeared before Immigration Judge John C. Odell at the Tacoma Immigration Court for the bond hearing. At the start of the fifteen-minute hearing, the Immigration Judge refused to record the proceedings. The immigration judge assumed a prosecutorial role rather than that of a neutral adjudicator. The immigration judge did not apply any cognizable legal standard and after the hearing the Immigration Judge issued a no-bond order containing no findings of fact, no legal reasoning, and no explanation of how he weighed the evidence. 

We are now filing a second habeas petition asking the court to review the errors of law in the bond hearing and grant M-A-C-C- immediate relief.