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Mexican national ordered set free from Woodbury County (Iowa) jail
https://www.radioiowa.com/2025/10/29/mexican-national-ordered-set-free-from-woodbury-county-jail/A federal judge is ordering the release of a man who was detained in northwest Iowa for being in the country without legal status.
Armando Garcia Picazo was sent to the Woodbury County jail in early August after ICE agents picked him up.
Guy Weinstein is Garcia Picazo’s lawyer and says his client was forced to stay behind bars, even though a judge set bond so he could try to legally stay in the U.S.
Weinstein says, “What the public doesn’t realize is that there’s a lot of individuals like Armando Garcia Picasso that have zero criminal history, they’ve been here in the community for a number of years, that this administration is trying to remove.”
Armando Garcia Picazo was sent to the Woodbury County jail in early August after ICE agents picked him up.
Guy Weinstein is Garcia Picazo’s lawyer and says his client was forced to stay behind bars, even though a judge set bond so he could try to legally stay in the U.S.
Weinstein says, “What the public doesn’t realize is that there’s a lot of individuals like Armando Garcia Picasso that have zero criminal history, they’ve been here in the community for a number of years, that this administration is trying to remove.”
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He even references another case Trump lost. 
https://www.casemine.com/judgement/us/69020fe121beee9c960eca0e
......Government's Interest. The best I can make of the Government's asserted interest is that it must be able to enforce the immigration laws as it interprets them. I do not discount that interest. See Dep't of State v. Munoz, 602 U.S. 899, 911-12 (2024) ("[T]he through line of history is recognition of the Government's sovereign authority to set the terms governing the admission and exclusion of noncitizens."
. But the Government's enforcement of immigration laws is not what is at issue here. Rather, it is the automatic stay regulation that Garcia Picazo challenges. The asserted interest of unilaterally revoking a bond determination made by a neutral arbiter is weak. If anything, the Government's interest in enforcing the immigration laws and ensuring that aliens entering removal proceedings are neither a danger nor a flight risk is satisfied at a bond redetermination hearing. But even accepting that the Government does have some interest in upholding the automatic stay provision,3it does not outweigh Garcio Picazo's liberty interest and the risk that the provision has on erroneously depriving him of that right.
B. Ultra Vires Regulation
Finally, Garcia Picazo argues that the automatic stay provision is ultra vires because it amounts to DHS acting without congressional authority. "Agency actions beyond delegated authority are 'ultra vires,' and courts must invalidate them." United States ex. rel. O'Keefe v. McDonnell Douglas Corp., 132 F.3d 1252, 1257 (8th Cir. 1998) (quoting Transohio Sav. Bank v. Dir., Off. of Thrift Supervision, 967 F.2d 598, 621 (D.C. Cir. 1992), abrogated on other grounds as recognized in Perry Cap. LLC v. Mnuchin, 864 F.3d 591, 621 (D.C. Cir. 2017)). The Government's brief does not address this argument. Which may be deemed an abandonment of the issue. Hacker v. Barnhart, 459 F.3d 934, 937 n.2 (8th Cir. 2006); see also Am. Foreign Serv. Ass'n v. Trump, 766 F. Supp. 3d 25, 30 (D.D.C. 2025). Nonetheless, I will address the challenge. In doing so I adopt and incorporate by reference the reasoning in Jacinto v. Trump, ___ F. Supp. 3d ___, No. 25CV3161, 2025 WL 2402271, at *5 (D. Neb. Aug. 19, 2025).
......Government's Interest. The best I can make of the Government's asserted interest is that it must be able to enforce the immigration laws as it interprets them. I do not discount that interest. See Dep't of State v. Munoz, 602 U.S. 899, 911-12 (2024) ("[T]he through line of history is recognition of the Government's sovereign authority to set the terms governing the admission and exclusion of noncitizens."
. But the Government's enforcement of immigration laws is not what is at issue here. Rather, it is the automatic stay regulation that Garcia Picazo challenges. The asserted interest of unilaterally revoking a bond determination made by a neutral arbiter is weak. If anything, the Government's interest in enforcing the immigration laws and ensuring that aliens entering removal proceedings are neither a danger nor a flight risk is satisfied at a bond redetermination hearing. But even accepting that the Government does have some interest in upholding the automatic stay provision,3it does not outweigh Garcio Picazo's liberty interest and the risk that the provision has on erroneously depriving him of that right.
B. Ultra Vires Regulation
Finally, Garcia Picazo argues that the automatic stay provision is ultra vires because it amounts to DHS acting without congressional authority. "Agency actions beyond delegated authority are 'ultra vires,' and courts must invalidate them." United States ex. rel. O'Keefe v. McDonnell Douglas Corp., 132 F.3d 1252, 1257 (8th Cir. 1998) (quoting Transohio Sav. Bank v. Dir., Off. of Thrift Supervision, 967 F.2d 598, 621 (D.C. Cir. 1992), abrogated on other grounds as recognized in Perry Cap. LLC v. Mnuchin, 864 F.3d 591, 621 (D.C. Cir. 2017)). The Government's brief does not address this argument. Which may be deemed an abandonment of the issue. Hacker v. Barnhart, 459 F.3d 934, 937 n.2 (8th Cir. 2006); see also Am. Foreign Serv. Ass'n v. Trump, 766 F. Supp. 3d 25, 30 (D.D.C. 2025). Nonetheless, I will address the challenge. In doing so I adopt and incorporate by reference the reasoning in Jacinto v. Trump, ___ F. Supp. 3d ___, No. 25CV3161, 2025 WL 2402271, at *5 (D. Neb. Aug. 19, 2025).