Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez was arrested by the Florida authorities on April 16 (loan: via NBC News/Thomas Kennedy, Florida Immigrant Coalition)
A 20-year-old residents of Georgia, which was wrongly arrested by US immigration and customs authorities (ICE) in Florida, was released about 24 hours later.
Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez was taken into custody on April 16 during a traffic disability. He was in a vehicle with others who had traveled from Georgia and had gone to a job in Florida.
According to the Florida Phoenix, which first reported on the arrest, a judge in Leon County determined during a first hearing that a birth certificate presented by Lopez-Gomez was authentic. However, the judge said that she was not responsible when there was no probable reason for the indictment. As a result, he was still arrested on request to hold him from ice.
A soldier of the State Florida reported that an ID was an ID in Georgia and that both Lopez-Gomez and another passenger admitted to be illegal in the United States when he was asked about their immigration status. Court documents state that the soldier later confirmed with ICE that Lopez-Gomez had occurred illegally in both Florida and in the United States, although Georgia does not allow immigrants to receive state ID cards without papers.
Lopez-Gomez 'arrest was thanks to a comprehensive immigration law that GOV. Governor Ron Desantis was signed in 2023, which criminalizes the transport of people without papers to the state.
Thomas Kennedy, a spokesman for the Florida Immigrant Coalition, told NBC News that he was also a role in Lopez-Gomez 'arrest.
“Since Desantis has become governor, we have passed a law against immigrants every year,” said Kennedy. “It creates a persecuting environment in which the entire state becomes a” show me “Your Papers” Modus Operandi, and they have laws that contradict the constitutional rights of the Americans, “he added.
Mutaqee Akbar, lawyer of Lopez-Gomez, said that the arrest and attitude of the 20-year-old resident in Georgia was “an indication of only aggression when it comes to this law”.
“I think it is an indication of the soldiers who are not even willing to recognize the proof that was right in front of them,” said Akbar. “Mr. Lopez-Gomez had a social security card and he also had Georgia ID and he presented them both and they were ignored,” he added.
The lawyer said that the criminal proceedings with Lopez-Gomez 'indictment were still open. He said the next step for his client was to have dismissed the indictment and had the idea of letting and floating a civil liability claim against the State of Florida for false arrest.
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