The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Southern California has filed a petition for an activist arrested in California just two days after he read a poem at a public forum criticizing the Trump administration’s immigration policies.
Jose Omar Bello Reyes, 22, read his poem titled “Dear America” at a public forum in Bakersfield, California on May 15, according to the petition for writ of habeas corpus filed by the ACLU. In a