IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION

ELADIO MONTERDE MUNOZ, ) ) Petitioner, ) ) Case No. 25 C 13121 v. ) ) Judge Joan H. Lefkow SAMUEL OLSON, Field Office Director, ) Chicago Field Office, Immigration and ) Customs Enforcement, in his official ) capacity; KRISTI NOEM, Secretary, U.S. ) Department of Homeland Security, in her ) official capacity; PAMELA BONDI, U.S. ) Attorney General, in her official capacity; ) TODD M. LYONS, Acting Director of U.S. ) Immigration and Customs Enforcement, in ) his official capacity; RODNEY S. SCOTT, ) Commissioner, U.S. Customs and Border ) Protection, in his official capacity ) ) Respondents. )

ORDER AND STATEMENT Eladio Monterde Munoz has filed a

habeas corpus petition challenging his present detention in ICE custody. Respondents are ordered to respond to the habeas corpus petition by November 6, 2025. Munoz shall reply by November 13, 2025. The court notes that habeas corpus relief has been recently granted for immigration detainees by other judges of the Northern District of Illinois in Ochoa Ochoa v. Noem, No. 25 C 10865,

(N.D. Ill. Oct. 16, 2025) (Jenkins, J.), H.G.V.U. v. Smith, No. 25 C 10931,

(N.D. Ill. Oct. 20, 2020) (Coleman, J.), Mariano Miguel v. Noem, No. 25 C 11137,

(N.D. Ill. Oct. 21, 2025) (Alonso, J.), and G.Z.T. v. Smith, No. 25 C 12802 (N.D. Ill. Oct. 21, 2025) (Ellis, J.). The court shall leave it to the parties to consider the relevance of these recent decisions, if any, to the instant case. In addition, respondents shall make a preliminary filing by October 30, 2025, stating: (1) whether Munoz was located in the Northern District of Illinois at the time this case was filed; (2) the current status of Munoz’s immigration proceedings; (3) Munoz’s current location and proper respondents based on that location; and (4) the government’s view as to whether the recent decision in Castañon Nava v. DHS, No. 18 C 3757 (N.D. Ill) (Dkt. 214) (addressing a consent decree) has any effect on Munoz’s habeas corpus case. Pursuant to the court's authority under the All Writs Act,

, the government is ordered not to remove Munoz from the jurisdiction of the United States and not to transfer him to any federal judicial district other than those in the States of Illinois, Indiana, or Wisconsin. A.A.R.P. v. Trump,

(2025) (per curiam) (citing

(a)) (“[T]he Government represented on the record in federal court that it reserved the right to remove detainees after midnight. We had the power to issue injunctive relief to prevent irreparable harm to the applicants and to preserve our jurisdiction over the matter.”); United States v. United Mine Workers of Am.,

(1947) (“The District Court had the power to preserve existing conditions while it was determining its own authority to grant injunctive relief.”) If Munoz is already, as of the posting of this order, located outside of Illinois, Indiana, or Wisconsin but within the United States, or is in the midst of transportation outside of those states to another state, then this bar on transfer does not require the immediate return of Munoz as long as respondents intend to hold Munoz within the United States. Instead, the parties and the court will address the issue after the respondents make the preliminary filing. The clerk shall email a copy of this order to Tom Walsh, Chief of the Civil Division, United States Attorney's Office, Northern District of Illinois; Craig Oswald, AUSA, United States Attorney’s Office, Northern District of Illinois; and Joshua Press, AUSA, United States Attorney's Office, Northern District of Illinois. This case is set for an in-person status hearing on November 5, 2025 at 9:30 a.m., in Courtroom 2201.

Date: October 28, 2025 z USS. District Judge Joan H. Lefkow