Somir v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• holding that Padilla does not apply to a petition chal- lenging a removal order, not challenging “present physical confinement”
• concluding that the near complete control the Attorney General possesses over noncitizens facing deportation makes him the legal custodian of these individuals and therefore a proper respondent
• “[T]he Attorney General is a proper respondent in immigration cases where the petitioner is challenging the government’s efforts to remove him from this country.”
• “[T]he near total control exercised by the Attorney General over aliens facing exclusion and deportation proceedings makes the Attorney General a custodian of these individuals within the meaning of the general habeas statute.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).