Ms. Chung (the human Noem is trying to pressure to leave the US, for First Amendment protected activity!) has been arrested and detained once already. She has counsel of record. She is no flight risk; she wishes to remain enrolled at Columbia University, as a fine honors student.
And in this letter to the able USDC Judge in Manhattan overnight, the Noem / Tangerine 2.0 lawyers refuse to let her counsel of record accept the notice to appear in court for the commencement of the immigration case, to try to remove her from the US.
The only plausible explanations for this are as follows: (i) Noem’s orders are to be as non-cooperative as possible, and/or (ii) the government is trying very hard to “pad” its numbers (of arrests made, per Trump’s own numerical quotas — which were pulled from thin air, and so are racist on their face).
This way, they can (AGAIN!) “arrest” her in the street, and hand her the notice to appear — as opposed to serving it electronically, on her well known counsel. Damn — here’s the full text of this lateest a$$-hattery — from Noem:
…This Office represents the government in the above-referenced matter. At the hearing held on May 29, 2025, the Court asked whether U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) would agree to serve a Notice to Appear (“NTA”) on Yunseo Chung’s counsel rather than through personal service effectuated after an arrest.
The answer is no. ICE has broad discretion over actions and decisions to conduct arrests and initiate removal proceedings, including the manner in which it serves an NTA. Separately, the Court had asked for a copy of Chung’s NTA. ICE has confirmed that an NTA has not yet been issued for Chung, as ICE typically issues and serves the NTA during processing that occurs after an arrest is made.
While the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) is required to serve the NTA on the alien, see 8 U.S.C. § 1229(a)(1), that act alone does not commence removal proceedings. Rather, the commencement of removal proceedings occurs when DHS files the NTA with the immigration court. See 8 C.F.R. § 1003.14(a) (“Jurisdiction vests, and proceedings before an Immigration Judge commence, when a charging document is filed with the Immigration Court by [DHS].”); see also 8 C.F.R. § 1239.1 (“Every removal proceeding… is commenced by the filing of a notice to appear with the immigration court.”); Banegas Gomez v. Barr, 922 F.3d 101, 111 (2d Cir. 2019)….
[This allows ICE to potentially hold her overnight, until a bail hearing can be arranged, as well.] I get the being a hard stick — as against murderers and hardened, violent drug traffickers (whether “fifth-generation born here” Americans, or recent arrivals).
But she is the opposite — a grad student who happened to attend the Columbia protests. No other part of her life even suggests any whiff of criminal behavior. This is… again, abuse of legal process — by Noem. Out.
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