US citizen detained by ICE in Florida released amid immigration crackdown
- Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez, a 20-year-old American citizen born in Georgia, was arrested in Florida after a traffic stop on Wednesday and spent the night in jail.
- His arrest stemmed from a new Florida law criminalizing unauthorized entry, which he was accused of violating despite traveling legally to work on a Tallahassee construction site.
- On Thursday, a judge in Leon County verified his birth certificate, confirming his status as a U.S. Citizen and resulting in his release from a 48-hour ICE detention.
- The ACLU of Florida stated that Lopez-Gomez was jailed under a false allegation and warned that the law risks detaining U.S. Citizens in racially motivated raids.
- This incident highlights concerns over Florida's immigration enforcement possibly causing wrongful detention of citizens and prompting calls to protect their rights.
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Federal immigration authorities wrongfully detain U.S. citizens
Immigration law in the United States is based on the idea that all people, regardless of how they entered the country, have rights. Respecting the fundamental human rights of all people is not a "woke" idea invented by liberals in the last few years. The Refugee Act of 1980, which passed Congress unanimously, gives migrants inside the United States the right to claim asylum based on "a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religio…
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