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Rhiannon12866

(232,373 posts)
Fri Apr 18, 2025, 02:59 AM Yesterday

Innocent American citizen detained by ICE in Florida has been released after 48 hours in custody. - FIVE MINUTE NEWS



Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez, born in Grady County, Georgia, where he currently lives in the city of Cairo was crossing the Florida state line for his work in construction in Tallahassee, about 45 minutes away from home, when he was detained under a new Florida law SB 4-C.

Lopez-Gomez was released Thursday evening, Thomas Kennedy, a spokesperson for an immigrant rights coalition that was working with Lopez-Gomez’s family. - 04/18/2025.

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Innocent American citizen detained by ICE in Florida has been released after 48 hours in custody. - FIVE MINUTE NEWS (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Yesterday OP
Born in GEORGIA democrank Yesterday #1
This is crazy and has to be blatantly illegal! Rhiannon12866 Yesterday #2
I hope this young man Marthe48 Yesterday #3
Same here, Good Grief! Rhiannon12866 Yesterday #4
TRAVEL ADVISORY: The southern US is nazi territory wolfie001 Yesterday #5

Rhiannon12866

(232,373 posts)
2. This is crazy and has to be blatantly illegal!
Fri Apr 18, 2025, 05:29 AM
Yesterday

All of us come from immigrants - parents, grandparents, great grandparents - or none of us would be here! We are and have always been a nation of immigrants. And that includes TFG!

Marthe48

(20,451 posts)
3. I hope this young man
Fri Apr 18, 2025, 05:58 AM
Yesterday

Who is an American citizen, has access to counseling for the anxiety and a lawyer to sue i.c.e. into oblivion.

wolfie001

(4,608 posts)
5. TRAVEL ADVISORY: The southern US is nazi territory
Fri Apr 18, 2025, 06:02 AM
Yesterday

Travel at your own risk. Not 100% safe in the rest of the country but the odds are a bit better.

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