Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez kept his mother in a close hug and Wept on Thursday evening after his release from Leon County's prison on Thursday evening.
An official of the homeland protection examinations in Tallahasee brought Lopez-Gomez, a 20-year-old born in Georgia, to a Wendy near the prison, where he reunited himself with his mother after he had arrested more than 24 hours after a traffic freezer in which he was a passenger.
Lopez-Gomez appeared shocked and spoke quietly when he discussed what happened when a patrol trooper in Florida Highway drove over the car, on which he overtook himself on the way to the work of Cairo, Georgia, to Tallahasee. The soldier set the traffic because, according to the arrest report, the driver drove 78 miles per hour in a zone of 65 km / h.
“I am fine to leave this place, I felt bad there. They gave us nothing to eat all day yesterday,” he told Florida Phoenix in Spanish. He added that he had the soldier who had made the arrest why he was taken into custody because he was a US citizen.
His mother, also in Spanish, said that the coming days will be hard for the family and that Lopez-Gomez and his sisters will live in fear of deportation even though he was born in the country. She told Phoenix that she was planning to sue her son's arrest.
“I have no way of paying everyone who helps us. People from other countries called us and we have no way of paying them. We can only thank you,” said Gomez-Perez.
The couple only reunited themselves in the evening after Lopez-Gomez 'first court appearance. The judge of Leon County, Lashawn Riggans, decided on Thursday morning that the jurisdiction did not officially ask her to hold the prison for 48 hours for the release of US immigration and customs authorities.
After the inspection of his social security card and the birth certificate by riggans who waved a lawyer in the courtroom, the judge said that she had found no likely reason for the indictment.
“If the court looks at it and feels it and it sticks to the light, he can clearly see the watermark to show that this is actually an authentic document,” said Riggans.
The arrest that the soldier submitted submitted to the states that Lopez-Gomez said he was illegal in the country, but he handed over his ID. The social security card was not mentioned in the arrest report. However, Lopez-Gomez informed the Phoenix that he had shown the soldier a copy of his social security card and his ID Georgia State.
The HSI agent, who brought Lopez-Gomez to Wendys, to a spokesman who did not answer the request of the Phoenix for comments or questions about this publication.
After reunification with his mother, Lopez-Gomez returned to the prison parking lot, where 30 demonstrators demanded his release. They met him with cheers and hugs.
Lopez-Gomez has to return to Leon County's courthouse on May 6th. After a recently passed law, he was charged that a federal judge temporarily prevented the state from preventing the validity of his arrest, the indictment and detention.
Governor Ron Desantis signed SB 4-C on February 14th, and Kathleen Williams, judge of the US district court, blocked his enforcement on April 4.
The law makes it an offense for immigrants without papers over the age of 18 to “knowingly” entering Florida, “after entering the United States by avoiding or avoiding examinations or inspections by immigration officers”.
Two other men, who were in the car with Lopez-Gomez, the driver and another passenger, also appeared on Thursday with the same charge. The driver was also charged with driving without a driver's license.
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