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Parties Involved:
Manuel Cisneros-Hernandez
Petitioner
Department of Homeland Security
Respondent

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

MANUEL CISNEROS-HERNANDEZ,

Petitioner,

v.

SECRETARY DEPARTMENT OF

HOMELAND SECURITY,

Respondent.

 /

CV F 05-1235 REC DLB HC

ORDER TRANSFERRING ACTION TO

NINTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS

PURSUANT TO REAL ID ACT OF 2005 AS

PETITION FOR REVIEW

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Petitioner is detained by the United States Bureau of Immigration and Customs

Enforcement (“ICE”) and is proceeding pro se with a petition for writ of habeas corpus pursuant

to 28 U.S.C. § 2241. Petitioner is challenging the final order of deportation. 

DISCUSSION

On May 11, 2005, the President signed into law the “Emergency Supplemental

Appropriations Act for Defense, The Global War on Terror, and Tsunami Relief, 2005.” 

Division B of the Act is titled “REAL ID Act of 2005.” Section 106 of the REAL ID Act

amends portions of section 242 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (hereinafter “INA”), 8

U.S.C. § 1251, and clarifies the scope of judicial review of removal orders. Pursuant to section

106 of the REAL ID Act, a petition for review to the court of appeals is the exclusive means of

review of an administrative order of removal, deportation, or exclusion. Id. at § 106(a). Section

106(c) provides that any habeas corpus petition pending in the district court in which an alien

challenges a final administrative order of removal, deportation, or exclusion shall be transferred

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 Section 106(c) defines the appropriate transferee court as the “court of appeals for the circuit in which a 1

petition for review could have been properly filed under section 242(b)(2) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8

U.S.C. 1252), as amended by this section, or under section 309(c)(4)(D) of the Illegal Immigration reform and

Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1101 note).” Section 242(b)(2) of the INA defines the proper venue

for a petition for review as “the judicial circuit in which the immigration judge completed the [underlying

immigration] proceedings.” INA § 242(b)(2), 8 U.S.C. § 1252(b)(2). 

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by the district court to the appropriate court of appeals. When a case pending in the district 1

court contains both challenges to an order of removal, deportation, or exclusion and to a nonremoval order issue, the district court shall transfer to the court of appeals “the part of the case

that challenges the order of removal, deportation, or exclusion.” Id. 

In this case, Petitioner challenges the Immigration Judge’s order of deportation, and the

case was filed after the Act went into effect. Therefore, the statute requires that this Court

transfer the matter to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

ORDER

Based on the foregoing, it is HEREBY ORDERED that the instant petition for writ of

habeas corpus is transferred to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals as a petition for review.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: November 15, 2005 /s/ Robert E. Coyle 

668554 UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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