The Daily Populous Friday April 18th, 2025 morning edition
Authored by newrepublic.com and submitted by irish_fellow_nyc

🚨A U.S. born citizen was arrested in Florida for entering the state as an “unauthorized alien.” His mother and a community advocate showed his birth certificate during a hearing in Leon County. The judge said she had no authority to release him. pic.twitter.com/lwQQMQuUVR — Jackie Llanos (@LlanosJackie) April 17, 2025

Lopez Gomez, 21, was born in Georgia. According to court records, he has been assigned a judge as well as a public defender. He appears to have been arrested and charged under an “anti-immigration” law passed in Florida two months ago, despite the fact that the law is currently under a temporary restraining order and isn’t supposed to be enforced.

It was only a matter of time before Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts swept up an American citizen, and it happened to be aided by local authorities in Florida. Before Trump was even sworn in as president, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis pledged his cooperation with the Trump administration’s attempts to deport as many immigrants as possible.

Why did local authorities completely disregard a federal court ruling in order to arrest Lopez Gomez, and then disregard the fact he’s a natural-born U.S. citizen? Is this a mistake, or are they taking their lead from the president, who is currently disregarding a court order from the Supreme Court?

brain_overclocked on April 17th, 2025 at 20:11 UTC »

> Lopez Gomez, 21, was born in Georgia. According to court records, he has been assigned a judge as well as a public defender. He appears to have been arrested and charged under an “anti-immigration” law passed in Florida two months ago, despite the fact that the law is currently under a temporary restraining order and isn’t supposed to be enforced.

> It was only a matter of time before Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts swept up an American citizen, and it happened to be aided by local authorities in Florida. Before Trump was even sworn in as president, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis pledged his cooperation with the Trump administration’s attempts to deport as many immigrants as possible.

This is an excellent example of why we want due process, because they won't hesitate to deport any wrong-looking American citizen to the Camps by 'mistake'.

EDIT:

Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen has met with Kilmar Ábrego García, however El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele insists Garcia will remain imprisoned:

US senator meets man mistakenly deported to El Salvador

> Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen posted photos of his meeting with Kilmar Ábrego García, whom the administration has refused to return to the US despite an order from a federal judge.

> After the meeting, El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele also refused to release Mr Ábrego García and said he would remain in the country's custody.

geoffvro on April 17th, 2025 at 20:05 UTC »

This was intentional, and a test to see what they can get away with. This will not be the last U.S. citizen detained by ICE. Non-loyalists are next

FormerUsenetUser on April 17th, 2025 at 20:03 UTC »

Not an accident, Trump wants to establish that he will arrest anyone.