A federal judge in Buffalo kept Arzou Hami off a rare deportation flight to Iran. Whether she is on the next planeload of Iranians bound for Tehran will be up to a judge in Texas.

That is what worries her lawyer, Matthew K. Borowski, who suggested her move to a Texas detention facility in July was a tactic by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement to undermine her habeas corpus petition.

U.S. District Judge Lawrence Vilardo on Tuesday transferred her case to a federal court in the Southern District of Texas, ruling that jurisdiction in her case belongs where ICE oversees her detention. The Buffalo field office for ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations moved her from the Niagara County jail to the El Valle Detention Facility in Raymondville, Texas.

"ICE, under the Trump administration,

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