BREAKING: RELEASED! Trump ICE Crackdown Detains U.S. Citizen in Florida — Despite Judge Seeing His Birth Certificate

Here's the latest we know about this emerging case

A U.S. citizen — yes, a citizen — was being held in a Florida jail tonight, trapped in the gears of a Trump administration-led ICE crackdown that appears increasingly willing to sideline the Constitution to carry out its anti-immigrant agenda.

Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez, 20 years old and born in Grady County, Georgia, was arrested this week in Florida after a highway patrol stop. Despite showing a valid Georgia state ID and later having both his birth certificate and Social Security card presented in court by his mother, Lopez-Gomez remained detained due to an ICE hold issued by Homeland Security Investigations under Trump’s command.

His mother awaiting answers

This is the first publicly known instance of a U.S. citizen being detained under this new wave of ICE enforcement under Trump.

What makes this even more chilling? It comes just days after the courts have pressed the Trump administration to return a wrongly deported legal immigrant to El Salvador, where he was sent directly to Nayib Bukele’s dystopian CECOT mega-prison.

Lopez-Gomez, who primarily speaks Tzotzil — an Indigenous Mayan language — was reportedly misidentified after a language barrier was exploited to justify his arrest.

The video (below) confirms that he was released around 6 tonight. We will update this story as details emerge.

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