Latino immigrant wrongly detained by ICE will receive $ 125,000.

The U.S. government agreed to pay $ 125,000 to end a lawsuit against him after Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE ) detained and jailed a naturalized U.S. citizen for a week, activists reported.

Carlos Ríos , who has been a naturalized United States citizen for more than two decades, was detained in 2019 by ICE for seven days at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington state, on suspicion of violating immigration laws. .

The arrest, carried out in the government of now former President Donald Trump , occurred despite the fact that the Hispanic man showed his US passport and repeatedly told officials that he was a citizen.

In the week that Ríos was detained, he was also placed in solitary confinement, which showed an indifferent disregard for his rights as a United States citizen, the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project (NWIRP) highlighted in a statement, which defended the Hispanic.

"I can't understand why they detained me and why no one listened to me ," Ríos said.

He added that even now he feels "sad" about what happened because it caused "a lot of damage" to his family and his work.

Supported by NWIRP, Ríos filed a lawsuit against the Government, and reached an agreement to withdraw the lawsuit for a payment of $ 125,000.

"I hope they don't do this to anyone else," he emphasized.

Matt Adams, legal director of NWIRP, explained that the Ríos case "is another example of what happened during the Trump Administration , where immigration officials felt empowered to blatantly trample on constitutional rights."

He added that immigration officials "do not have the authority to arrest someone based on a hunch or suspicion, and certainly not based on a person's race, ethnicity or apparent language."