Judge Orders UC Berkeley Student Released From ICE Custody After SFO Arrest

Paula Albornoz Hernandez, 23, a UC Berkeley business administration major and Colombian asylum seeker, was detained by ICE agents at San Francisco International Airport as she tried to fly to Portland, and was held more than a week at the California City Detention Facility. U.S. District Judge Dena Coggins found ICE failed to provide a “constitutionally compliant pre-deprivation bond hearing” and ordered her released immediately, without ankle monitors. DHS said a pending asylum application or work permit does “NOT confer legal status”; UC Berkeley Chancellor Rich Lyons said the school was “relieved and overjoyed.”