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A 29-year-old Honduran immigrant, Erick Lopez, is suing Houston after being held for two hours by police following a traffic stop—long before ICE arrived. He claims his rights were violated during that unlawful detention, which his lawyer calls false arrest and unreasonable search. The case stems from a controversial city ordinance change allowing officers to wait “a reasonable amount of time” for immigration enforcement, despite original intent to limit cooperation. Lopez, who’d lived in the U.S. for over a decade and had a pending immigration case, was pulled over for failing to yield at a stop sign, searched without cause, and had his car towed—all while waiting for ICE. Now his attorney seeks to turn this into a class-action lawsuit, citing multiple similar cases where people were detained for administrative warrants, not criminal charges.

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