ACLU files lawsuit against Florida sheriff's office for nearly deporting U.S. citizen

[turbinetree]

Source: Think Progress

"I am and have always been a citizen of the United States."

REBEKAH ENTRALGO
DEC 4, 2018, 10:35 AM

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) announced Monday that it had filed a lawsuit in conjunction with the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) against a Florida sheriff's office for unlawfully detaining and nearly deporting a U.S citizen.

Peter Sean Brown was born in Philadelphia and has lived in Florida for the last 10 years. According to the complaint, Brown reported to the Monroe County Sheriff's Office in April for violating his probation for a low-level marijuana offense and was subsequently detained longer than was required at the request of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

ICE believed Brown was a Jamaican undocumented immigrant of the same name, and was intent on deporting him. Despite his repeated pleas that he was a U.S. citizen with a birth certificate and a Florida driver's license, Monroe County jail officers told him he was being sent to a country he had only been to once on a cruise.

"I am and have always been a citizen of the United States," Brown said in a video released by the ACLU. "I did not even realize what ICE was at the time and reading through it I realized it had something to do with immigration, and at that point, I made a comment of, 'There must've been a mistake.'"

Read more: https://thinkprogress.org/aclu-lawsuit-florida-sheriffs-office-deporting-us-citizen-fdffd03d6807/

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This is just messed up..................and I hope that the new congress takes a strong look at this........................

Federal Law enforcement and this pin head sheriff doing racial profiling.....................


November 3, 2020 cannot get here fast enough...........................

[Kurt V.]

1. K&R

i think this is a big story. this could happen to anyone

[ck4829]

2. Disturbing

[ailsagirl]

3. Very

[Doreen]

4. It is crap like this that makes me nervous for my friend and his family from Germany.

OK, my friend and his brother just before him were born in the United States BUT only his mother got naturalized and his father remained a German citizen with some type of permanent visa. His oldest brother and sister were born in Germany so this makes four people of his family immigrants. Now, his parents are deceased so they are not at risk for deportation ( unless they are going to start deporting the dead immigrants also ) but I do worry about the rest of them. Oh, I guess I should not worry about his oldest brother as he is living in France. People in the past have said oh do not worry that would never happen. Well, people I would not put it past this administration to do that.

[steventh]

5. Thank goodness for the ACLU

They're a bulwark against so many wrongs, now more than ever.

[PatSeg]

6. ICE is getting scarier and more belligerant

each day. They seem to enjoy their job too much, like the objective is to deport as many people as possible, regardless of their status.

[ROB-ROX]

7. I PRAY THE EVIL ORGANIZATIONS ARE SUED FOR MILLIONS$$

This man's constitutional rights were violated. He deserves millions for the wrong committed against him. I pray that he gets justice for the wrong he suffered and those idiots who were wrong suffer for the evil they did to him and others..

[safeinOhio]

8. Very, very large settlements

tend to discourage these type of things. The county sheriff, an elected official, will need to explain to the voters where the money went.

[Corgigal]

9. Very good.

My son in law had an encounter with this agency, and we tried to find an attorney but no one would fight this one agency. Well, good because something is unhealthy in Monroe County sheriff's office.

[dbackjon]

10. Brown is GAY. Jamaica is violent towards gays. This could have been a death sentence.

I believe he was targeted.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

11. When the ACLU and the SPLC file a joint suit against you - -

You have committed the Mother of all fuck ups.