Opinion ID: 4689051
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: The Government’s Motion to Dismiss Galeas

Text: Figueroa’s Petition Galeas Figueroa’s petition did not automatically stay his removal. Accordingly, to prevent his removal during the pendency of the petition, Galeas Figueroa moved for a stay.2 That motion was denied. At that point, without a court-ordered stay, the Government could remove Galeas Figueroa during the pendency of this petition. See 8 U.S.C. § 1252(b)(3)(B) (“Service of the petition [for review] on the officer or employee does not stay the removal of an alien pending the court’s decision on the petition, unless the court orders otherwise.”). And while this matter was pending, the Government produced one piece of circumstantial evidence suggesting that Galeas Figueroa received an order to report to custody for removal and that he violated that order. The evidence, a Notice of Immigration Bond Breach (ICE Form I-323), was not addressed to Galeas Figueroa but to his bond obligor. That document indicated that 2 Through an order implementing this Court’s standing order of August 8, 2015, upon filing his motion for a stay, Galeas Figueroa received a temporary stay of removal only for the pendency of his motion to stay. 10 the bond obligor did not deliver Galeas Figueroa to governmental custody, and it notified the bond obligor that the cash bond would be forfeited. Based on that form, the Government asserted that Galeas Figueroa was a fugitive and moved to dismiss Galeas Figueroa’s petition under the fugitive disentitlement doctrine.