Juan Carlos Lopez Gomez walked out of a Florida prison after spending a night in jail, according to CNN, after being falsely accused of being an “unauthorised alien.”
His personal meeting with his family is captured in a video on social media.
According to his attorney Mutaqee Akbar, Gomez was detained on Wednesday by the Florida Highway Patrol during a traffic stop. He was traveling to Tallahassee for his construction project by crossing the Florida-bound Georgia state range from his Georgian home, a regular 45-minute drive to work.
Juan Carlos Lopez Gomez, who is he?
- Juan Carlos Lopez Gomez, age 20, was born in Grady County, Georgia, and currently resides in Cairo, Georgia.
- He has been employed by the same firm for four years and specializes in carpet setup.
- Although he was born in the US, he spent the majority of his youth in Mexico.
- His native Maya speech, Tzotzil, is his first speech.
- The fourth of four sisters, all born in the United States, is he the eldest.
- His family informed CNN that officers mistakenly assumed he was undocumented because of his” Hispanic” appearance and language background.
Judge LaShawn Riggans verified Lopez Gomez’s birth certificate to be true during a simulated court reading.
The arrest of Lopez Gomez has been widely criticized as a flagrant violation of Florida’s questionable SB 4-C rules. Immigration officials in Florida were now violating the law earlier this month, but a provincial judge had previously blocked it, according to CNN.
