Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez is a freelance man after spending Wednesday evening in a prison in Florida.
The State Highway Patrol arrested the 20-year-old on Wednesday after a traffic disability. He was illegally taken into custody to Florida and made in a 48-hour commitment to immigration and customs authorities.
The problem is that Lopez-Gomez is an American citizen who was born in Georgia. He traveled to Florida to work on a construction site in Tallahassee.
A judge of Leon County authenticated his birth certificate on Thursday and he was released.
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Florida's ACLU reacted to Lopez-Gomez.
“Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez is a US citizen, but he was arrested and imprisoned in accordance with a new law, which was based on an obvious false assertion that he joined the state while he was undocumented,” said the organization. “Nevertheless, although his mother appeared in court with his social security card and his birth certificate, he shows his place of birth as a united states.”
On February 13, Florida Governor Ron Desantis signed a legislative template in which “adults unauthorized extraterrestrials who knowingly enter or tried to enter this state after entering the United States by dismissing or avoiding the examination or inspection by immigration officers.”
On April 4, the US district court of Kathleen Williams set up a 14-day stay of the law.
Florida's ACLU claims that the new law could bring us the risk of being arrested.
“US citizens should not be arrested by ice, but they will continue to be instructed in these racially motivated raids and collateral arrests,” said the organization.
