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Parties Involved:
Jose Arellano-Cigfuego
Petitioner
Warden
Respondent

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

JOSE ARELLANO-CIGFUEGO,

Petitioner,

v.

WARDEN,

Respondent.

Case No. 1:23-cv-01351-WBS-SAB-HC

ORDER DIRECTING RESPONDENT TO 

FILE COPY OF PETITIONER’S 

PURPORTED FINAL ORDER OF 

REMOVAL

Petitioner is a federal prisoner proceeding pro se with a petition for writ of habeas corpus 

pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241 that challenges a Federal Bureau of Prisons’ policy that excludes 

inmates with immigration detainers from applying their First Step Act (“FSA”) Earned Time 

Credits (“FTCs” or “ETCs”). (ECF No. 1.) Respondent has moved to dismiss the petition, 

arguing, among other grounds, that Petitioner is “jurisdictionally and statutorily barred from FSA 

ETC sentence-offsets due to the final order of removal from another federal court.” (ECF No. 17

at 3.

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) Respondent has submitted a declaration from a Correctional Programs Administrator for 

the Western Region of the Federal Bureau of Prisons who declared in pertinent part:

BOP has determined that Petitioner is ineligible to apply FTCs because the inmate 

is subject to a final order of removal under immigration laws pursuant to 8 U.S.C. 

§ 1101(a)(17) and 18 U.S.C. § 3632(d)(4)(E)). I have personally reviewed and can 

verify the existence of the Final Order of Removal, dated May 10, 2010, that BOP 

1 Page numbers refer to the ECF page numbers stamped at the top of the page.

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obtained through the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and 

Customs Enforcement. 

(ECF No. 17-1 at 7–8.) However, Respondent has not provided the Court with a copy of the final 

order of removal itself. 

Pursuant to Rule 7 of the Rules Governing Section 2254 Cases in the United States

District Courts (“Habeas Rules”),2the Court will order Respondent to file a copy of Petitioner’s

purported final order of removal and provide Petitioner an opportunity to file a response. See

Habeas Rule 7(a), (c) (providing that “the judge may direct the parties to expand the record by 

submitting additional materials relating to the petition” and “must give the party against whom 

the additional materials are offered an opportunity to admit or deny their correctness”). 

Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that:

1. Within fourteen (14) days of the date of this order, Respondent SHALL FILE a copy of 

Petitioner’s purported final order of removal; and

2. Within fourteen (14) days of the filing of the copy of the final order of removal, 

Petitioner may file a response.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: July 9, 2024 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

2 The Rules Governing Section 2254 Cases apply to § 2241 habeas petitions. See Rule 1(b) of the Rules Governing 

Section 2254 Cases (“The district court may apply any or all of these rules to a habeas corpus petition not covered 

by” 28 U.S.C. § 2254.).

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