An American citizen born in the United States was being arrested at the request of the immigration authorities on Thursday despite the fact that a defender who shows his birth certificate of the United States in the Court and a County judge found no reason for him to be considered an “illegal foreigner” who entered Florida illegally.
Juan Carlos Gómez-López, 20, was arrested Thursday night by the Florida road patrol and accused under a state immigration law that has been temporarily blocked since the beginning of this month. The details of the arrest and detention of Gómez-López were first informed by the news site of Florida Phoenix.
After inspecting his birth certificate, Leon County Judge Lashawn Riggans said during the hearing that “this is an authentic document”, but that he had no jurisdiction beyond not finding any probable cause for the position.
The role of immigration and compliance with customs is to enforce immigration laws that generally apply to non -citizens. American citizens are protected under the fourth amendment of the constitution of the search and unreasonable seizures, arrest and detention.
However, he remains detained locally at the request of ICE, said Thomas Kennedy, spokesman for the Florida immigrant coalition that attended Thursday’s audience.
“Everything tracks them as an ice detention center,” News told NBC in a telephone interview.
NBC News has communicated with state and federal authorities to comment.
Gómez-López was in a vehicle with other passengers and traveled to work from Georgia when they were arrested after entering Florida.
A broad immigration law signed by Governor Ron Desantis in 2023 makes it a state crime for an undocumented immigrant over 18 years to enter the State illegally.
Gómez-López was born in Georgia but lived much of his life in Mexico. His first language is Tzotzil, a Mayan language, Florida Phoenix reported.
His mother began to cry when he saw his son virtually at his audience, the news site reported.
“I felt immense helplessness because I couldn’t do anything, and I’m desperate to get my son out of there,” Florida Phoenix told Florida.
Kennedy compared the situation with Franz Kafka’s novel “The Trial” in which man must defend himself against a position, but has no information about it.
“It’s like this bureaucratic and dystopian nightmare of poorly written laws,” Kennedy said. “We are living at a time when this man could be sent to El Salvador because, what will be treated as a stateless person?”
Kennedy referred to the hundreds of immigrants who were sent by the Trump administration to a Megaprison of El Salvador after they were accused of being gang members under the law of alien enemies in time of war. Families, lawyers and some US legislators have not been able to have any contact with them.
