U.S. citizen released from jail after arrest under Florida's new anti-immigration law

[pnwmom]

Source: Florida Phoenix

Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez held his mother in a tight embrace and wept following his release from the Leon County Jail Thursday evening, where the U.S. citizen was held after his arrest for illegally entering Florida as an “unauthorized alien.”

An official with Homeland Security Investigations in Tallahassee took Lopez-Gomez, a 20-year-old born in Georgia, to a Wendy’s near the jail, where he reunited with his mother after spending more than 24 hours under arrest following a traffic stop in which he was a passenger.

Lopez-Gomez appeared shellshocked and spoke quietly as he discussed what happened when a Florida Highway Patrol trooper pulled over the car he was in on his way to work from Cairo, Georgia, to Tallahassee. The trooper made the traffic stop because the driver was going 78 mph in a 65 mph zone, according to the arrest report.

“I feel fine leaving that place, I felt bad in there. They didn’t give us anything to eat all day yesterday,” he told the Florida Phoenix in Spanish. He added that he had asked the trooper who made the arrest why he was being taken into custody, because he was a U.S. citizen.

Read more: https://floridaphoenix.com/2025/04/17/u-s-citizen-released-from-jail-after-arrest-under-floridas-new-anti-immigration-law/

[Deuxcents]

1. Thanks for the follow up about this. It's just unbelievable what's going on

[BOSSHOG]

2. Anti immigration Law

So both of my great grandfathers would be subject to Florida racist ignorant unconstitutional conservative values bullshit? No they wouldn’t. They were both white. The Republican Party is a cancer.

[Lovie777]

3. Good news..............

but it should never happen.

[Solly Mack]

4. Good

[IrishBubbaLiberal]

5. I know firsthand the racist America for brown people

We ALWAYS left the SOUTH to vacation in California.

Texas is and was a very racist state,
Although Texas is ‘better’ in most major cities now,
Compared to 1960s 1970s 1980s, it’s improved.

But Republicans will always be Republicans,
Racism is always there, bubbling up,
The white neighbor who never says a word, never waves,
And when a new white family moves in the street,
The white neighbor of mine always seen to be friends
with the new white family.

I’ve seen it OVER AND OVER AND OVER

Today it usually is more subtle.

I could list numerous examples but what’s the use,

[moniss]

6. The FHP wants headcount and they don't care how they get it.

Despite him doing nothing wrong and being a US citizen they will put his arrest in with their total numbers to make claims about how their effort has shown big results.

[Bayard]

7. Exactly

They have a quota to meet.

[DENVERPOPS]

8. All the Racist cops, (not the good ones)

are not focusing on Blacks anymore.........they now feel legitimacy and emboldened in going after Hispanics.