Manuel Maria Sarmiento-Alvarez, a 46-year-old Ecuadorian national who has lived in the United States since 2003 and established community roots in Philadelphia with two U.S. citizen children, was detained by DHS/ICE on July 29, 2026, after officers showed him a photograph of a different individual they were seeking. Despite Sarmiento-Alvarez's denial that he was the person depicted, officers detained him anyway at the Federal Detention Center in Philadelphia. The court granted his habeas corpus petition on August 1, 2026, finding that his detention without a bond hearing violated the Immigration and Nationality Act, ordered his immediate release, and temporarily enjoined re-detention for seven days pending a proper bond hearing.