Filed: May 25, 2018
Latest Update: May 25, 2018
Summary: MEMORANDUM OPINION MADELINE HUGHES HAIKALA , District Judge . When petitioner Ibrahim Barrie filed his 28 U.S.C. 2241 petition in this matter, he was being held in the Etowah County Detention Center as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainee subject to a final order of deportation dated October 22, 2012, and Mr. Barrie sought release pending his final removal from the United States. (Doc. 1). On April 3, 2018, the respondents filed a motion to dismiss this action as moot be
Summary: MEMORANDUM OPINION MADELINE HUGHES HAIKALA , District Judge . When petitioner Ibrahim Barrie filed his 28 U.S.C. 2241 petition in this matter, he was being held in the Etowah County Detention Center as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainee subject to a final order of deportation dated October 22, 2012, and Mr. Barrie sought release pending his final removal from the United States. (Doc. 1). On April 3, 2018, the respondents filed a motion to dismiss this action as moot bec..
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MEMORANDUM OPINION
MADELINE HUGHES HAIKALA, District Judge.
When petitioner Ibrahim Barrie filed his 28 U.S.C. § 2241 petition in this matter, he was being held in the Etowah County Detention Center as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainee subject to a final order of deportation dated October 22, 2012, and Mr. Barrie sought release pending his final removal from the United States. (Doc. 1).
On April 3, 2018, the respondents filed a motion to dismiss this action as moot because Mr. Barrie was removed from the United States to Sierra Leone on March 16, 2018. (Doc. 15; Doc. 15-1).1 A court must dismiss a case as moot if the court no longer can provide "meaningful relief." Nyaga v. Ashcroft, 323 F.3d 906, 913 (11th Cir. 2003) (citations omitted).
In his petition, Mr. Barrie asks the Court to order his release from ICE custody. (Doc. 1). Because the record demonstrates that Mr. Barrie no longer is in ICE custody, the Court cannot provide meaningful relief, and Mr. Barrie's petition is moot. Accordingly, the Court will grant the respondents' motion to dismiss.
The Court will enter a separate final order. The Court directs the Clerk to please mail a copy of this memorandum opinion and of the docket sheet in this matter to Mr. Barrie at 4504 N. New Hope Rd., Raleigh, NC, 27612.
DONE and ORDERED.
