Summary
The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky denied Jose Rafael Camargo Navas’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241. The court held that Venezuela’s Temporary Protected Status designation had been terminated pursuant to the effect of a Supreme Court stay, so Navas lacked active TPS when ICE detained him and could not establish that his detention was unlawful on that basis.
Court
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky
Jurisdiction
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky
Decision date
March 23, 2026
Docket number
No. 26-66-DLB
Disposition
writ_denied
Questions Presented
- Whether Navas had active Temporary Protected Status at the time of his January 26, 2026 arrest and detention.
- Whether Navas was entitled to habeas relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 based on his assertion that detention violated INA § 244 and his claimed TPS status.
Holdings
- The Supreme Court's October 3, 2025 stay remained in effect pending disposition of the Government's Ninth Circuit appeal and any timely petition for certiorari, thereby allowing DHS's termination of Venezuela's 2023 TPS designation to proceed.
- Navas did not have active TPS at the time of his arrest or during his detention because Venezuela's TPS designation had been terminated effective April 7, 2025.
- The § 2241 petition was denied because Navas failed to demonstrate that he had active TPS when he was arrested or during his detention.
Court Document
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