Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez, a U.S.-born American citizen being held at the request of immigration officials in Florida, has been released.
He was arrested by Florida authorities under a state immigration law a judge temporarily blocked. The law allows Florida authorities to arrest people who have entered the state and are suspected to have come to the country illegally.
Lopez-Gomez was born in Georgia. A judge for Leon County, Florida, had determined that a birth certificate presented at a hearing Thursday was authentic but had said she did not have jurisdiction beyond finding no probable cause for the charge.
Lopez-Gomez continued to be detained on a request to hold him from ICE.
“I feel fine leaving that place, I felt bad in there. They didn’t give us anything to eat all day yesterday,” Lopez-Gomez said.
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