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Nature of Suit Code: 530
Nature of Suit: Prisoner Petitions - Habeas Corpus
Cause of Action: 28:2241 Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus (Federal)

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NOT FOR PUBLICATION

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA

Juan Machuca-Tellez, 

Petitioner, 

vs.

Michael Chertoff, et al., 

Respondents. 

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No. CV05-1866-PHX-SRB

ORDER

Petitioner filed a Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241 on

June 21, 2005, raising four claims. Petitioner claims that the Board of Immigration Appeals

("BIA") abused its discretion in dismissing Petitioner's appeal of the Immigration Judge's

decision denying his application for an INA Section 212(c) waiver; that the BIA committed

prejudicial error in dismissing his appeal of the IJ's decision denying his application for an

INA Section 212(c) waiver; that his due process rights were violated by the BIA's dismissal

of his appeal; and that his due process rights were violated when he taken into custody

without a warrant on May 23, 2005. On July 19, 2005, Respondents moved to transfer

Petitioner's first three claims to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals based on the enactment

of Section 106 of the REAL ID Act. Thereafter, Respondents filed their answer to the fourth

claim and filed additional briefing as requested by the Court and Petitioner filed a

supplemental reply. 

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On February 23, 2006, the Magistrate Judge to whom this petition had been referred,

issued a Report and Recommendation recommending that the Motion to Transfer be granted

because the district courts have been divested of jurisdiction to review orders of removal by

Section 106(a) of the REAL ID Act, and further noting Petitioner's response to the Motion

to Transfer stated that he had no objection to it. The Report and Recommendation further

recommended that ground four of the petition be denied as moot because Petitioner was

removed from the United States on or about January 19, 2006. The Report and

Recommendation specifically advised that the parties had 10 days from the date of service

of a copy of the Report and Recommendation within which to file specific written objections

with the Court. That 10 day period has long since expired and no objections have been filed

by counsel for the Petitioner or by counsel for the Respondents. 

The Court has reviewed the Petition, Answer, Supplemental Answer, Supplemental

Reply, and the pending motions. The Court finds itself in agreement with Report and

Recommendation of the Magistrate Judge concerning the disposition of the Motion to

Transfer grounds one through three of Petitioner's Writ of Habeas Corpus and the denial of

ground four of the Petition as moot.

IT IS ORDERED adopting the Report and Recommendation of the Magistrate Judge

as the order of this Court. (doc. 27).

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that Respondents' Motion to Transfer grounds one

through three of Petitioner's Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus is granting, that portion of

the petition shall be transferred to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. (Doc. 12).

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED ground four of the Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus

is denied as moot.

DATED this 22nd day of March, 2006.

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