US citizen held by ICE despite judge seeing birth certificate

 https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5255137-us-citizen-held-by-ice-despite-judge-seeing-birth-certificate/?tbref=hp

An American citizen was held in a Florida jail at the request of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) despite the county judge being able to see a U.S. birth certificate in court. 

“It’s like this bureaucratic, dystopian nightmare of poorly written laws,” Thomas Kennedy, a spokesperson at the Florida Immigrant Coalition, who attended the Thursday hearing, told NBC News. “We are living in a time when this man could get sent to El Salvador because, what, is he going to be treated like a stateless person?”

American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Florida legal fellow Amy Godshall told The Independent that Lopez-Gomez’s detention was “based on a patently false allegation that he entered the state while undocumented,” adding that “all this despite his mother appearing in court with his Social Security card and his birth certificate showing his place of birth as the United States.”