Petitioner M-J-M-A- was simply heading into work on the morning of October 30, 2025, when she was swept up in Respondents’ dragnet of immigration enforcement in Woodburn—one of  Oregon’s most heavily Latino cities. This dragnet was meant to achieve a quota of immigrant arrests, regardless of what the law requires U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) to do when taking away someone’s liberty. ICE had neither a warrant to arrest M-J-M-A- nor probable cause to detain her. To compound this illegality, when M-J-M-A- was working with a pro bono lawyer discussing the illegality of her arrest and detention, and her options for obtaining liberty and fighting her immigration case, ICE terminated the conversation and whisked her away; now, by operation of the transfer, blocking her access to her lawyer for over 48 hours. 

M-J-M-A-’s detention is unlawful for multiple reasons: she was unlawfully stopped, without reasonable suspicion, after the stop of the vehicle in which she was a passenger; she was unlawfully arrested without a warrant and without probable cause or reason to believe she had committed an immigration violation and would flee before a warrant could be obtained;  and Respondents denied her a meaningful pre-detention opportunity to be heard in violation of her constitutional right to due process and Respondents’ own regulations, including egregiously interfering with her right to counsel. 

But freedom from executive detention is fundamental to our society and our liberty. M-J-M-A- sued to stop illegal ICE arrests.