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Man with U.S. birth certificate jailed for illegally entering Florida as an “unauthorized alien”

Ellsworth Toohey
Apr 17, 2025
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Remember when Florida promised its new "papers please" law wouldn't target American citizens?

Meet Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez, a 20-year-old Georgian who made the rookie mistake of being born in America while brown. As reported in Raw Story, he got nabbed during a traffic stop where he wasn't even driving.

Lopez-Gomez showed…

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