Order Granting Temporary Stay

[ECF No. 5]

JENNIFER A. DORSEY, District Judge.

Petitioner Olivia Aguilar-Bamaca is a citizen of Guatemala who, along with her 5-year-old daughter, entered the United States illegally to seek asylum. Aguilar-Bamaca and her daughter were soon separated: the daughter was presumably released to Aguilar-Bamaca's brother in Florida while Aguilar-Bamaca went through Credible Fear Interviews to determine whether she is eligible for asylum. An asylum officer and an immigration judge both found Aguilar-Bamaca ineligible.

Aguilar-Bamaca has since been transferred to a detention center in Arizona to be deported today. She has filed an emergency motion for a stay of her removal while her petition for a writ of habeas corpus is pending.1 Because time is of the essence, and because I have already directed the respondents to respond to her original emergency motion by August 22, 2018, but petitioner's most recent filing shows that her deportation is imminent, and, absent a stay, she will be deported before I receive the government's response, I grant a temporary stay of her deportation and set this matter for an emergency hearing.

Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that this emergency motion [ECF No. 5] is GRANTED in part. Aguilar-Bamaca's deportation is temporarily STAYED until 5:00 p.m. PST on August 24, 2018, or further order of this court. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that Aguilar-Bamaca's original emergency request [ECF No. 1] will be heard at 9:00 a.m. PST on August 24, 2018, in courtroom 6D of the Lloyd D. George Courthouse at 333 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas, NV 89101. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that Aguilar-Bamaca must IMMEDIATELY SERVE a copy of this order on all respondents.