Gomez, arrested at a traffic stop, was held for 30 hours per ICE request despite proof he was born in Georgia. Here's what to know.

In apparent defiance of a federal court ruling, a Florida Highway Patrol trooper arrested a Georgia man in north Florida under a new state law that targets undocumented immigrants who enter the state illegally — though it turns out the man is a U.

Gomez, a 20-year-old U.S. citizen, was being held in the Leon County Jail Thursday, charged with illegally entering Florida as an “unauthorized alien” — even as a supporter waved his U.S. birth certificate in court.