DUARTE v. MAYORKAS

No. 18-20784 consolidated with Nos. 19-20046, 19-20168, 19-20213.

27 F.4th 1044 (2022)

Karla Yesenia DUARTE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Alejandro MAYORKAS, in his official capacity as the Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Lee Cissna, in his official capacity as the Director, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services; Mark Siegl, in his official capacity as the Director, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Houston Field Office Defendants-Appellees, Selvin Ixel Rivera Isaula, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Alejandro Mayorkas, in his official capacity as the Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Lee Cissna, in his official capacity as the Director, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services; Mark Siegl, in his official capacity as the Director, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Houston Field Office Defendants-Appellees, Hilma Haydee Jezek, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Alejandro Mayorkas, in his official capacity as the Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Lee Cissna, in his official capacity as the Director, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services; Mark Siegl, in his official capacity as the Director, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Houston Field Office, Defendants-Appellees, Jesus Cruz, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Alejandro Mayorkas, in his official capacity as the Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Lee Cissna, in his official capacity as the Director, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services; Mark Siegl, in his official capacity as the Director, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Houston Field Office Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

FILED March 3, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Raed Gonzalez, Esq. , Senior Attorney, Ross Alan Miller , Aaron Prabhu, Esq. , Gonzalez Olivieri, L.L.C., Houston, TX, Amanda Waterhouse , Waterhouse Dominguez & Strom, P.L.L.C., Houston, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Mary Lynn Larakers , U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation — District Court Section, Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before Dennis, Graves, and Willett, Circuit Judges.


Karla Duarte, Selvin Ixel Rivera Isaula, Hilma Haydee Jezek, and Jesus Cruz (collectively, "the Appellants") are Honduran immigrants who were ordered deported but then granted Temporary Protected Status ("TPS") after the Attorney General determined aliens could not be safely returned to Honduras in the aftermath of...

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