United States Fifth Circuit

Post-removal-order release may be conditioned upon the posting of a bond; the amount of that bond must be reasonable in the circumstances; a bond that has the effect of preventing an immigrant's release because of inability to pay and that results in "potentially permanent" detention is presumptively unreasonable.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/10/2004
• Published 05/10/2004

Judges

• EDITH BROWN CLEMENT, Circuit Judge:, Before HIGGINBOTHAM, DENNIS and CLEMENT, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mousa Elias Salameh Shokeh, New Roads, LA, pro se.


• For Appellees:
  
• Thomas Burton Thompson, Asst. U.S. Atty., Lafayette, LA, for Respondents-Appellees.