The American Civil Liberties Union is fighting to end the monthslong detention of an undocumented gay man by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Pennsylvania. On Tuesday, the ACLU of Pennsylvania filed a legal complaint in federal district court, asking the judge to order the release of Jose “Ivan” Nuñez, a Mexican man held by ICE since Jan. 31. ICE officials “stormed into the room,” as the ACLU put it in its release, and detained Nuñez ― and have been holding him at York County Prison outside of Philadelphia ever since. Nuñez left the country briefly that year to attend to his sick mother in Mexico, according to the ACLU filing. Nuñez later unlawfully re-entered, still fearing for his life for being gay in Mexico.

Source: Huffington Post May 22, 2018 23:03 UTC