{"id":397245,"date":"2026-08-04T09:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T09:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/397245\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T09:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T09:04:11","slug":"deported-honduran-man-sues-houston-over-police-cooperation-with-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/397245\/","title":{"rendered":"Deported Honduran man sues Houston over police cooperation with ICE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The filing is the latest development in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/projects\/2026\/hpd-ice-timeline\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">a months-long fight<\/a> between immigration advocates and Mayor John Whitmire\u2019s administration over how officers respond when they encounter residents with civil immigration warrants, 700,000 of which officials in President Donald Trump\u2019s administration added to a federal database last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit alleges Houston police stopped Erick Lopez, 29, for a traffic violation on June 17 and held him for two hours. He was deported June 27, according to the filing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cErick has no criminal record,\u201d said Lopez&#8217;s attorney, Randall Kallinen,\u00a0in a press release. \u201cHe was supporting a girlfriend with two children, doing tile and other flooring work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Representatives for\u00a0Whitmire\u2019s office didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request for comment about the filing.<\/p>\n<p>These warrants are civil, not criminal, documents, and do not by themselves give local police the authority to detain someone.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The filing is the latest development in a months-long fight between immigration advocates and Mayor John Whitmire\u2019s administration&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-397245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}