By Greg Moran, UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
Thursday, April 1, 2010 at 12:05 a.m.
FEDERAL COURT — Two mentally ill immigration detainees whose deportation cases have languished in a kind of legal limbo for years were released yesterday, four days after the ACLU filed court petitions seeking their freedom.
Guillermo Gomez Sanchez, 48, and Jose Antonio Franco, 29, were released to family members while they await disposition of their cases, according to lawyers for the men and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Both men were housed at the Otay Mesa Detention facility, but have been held in a variety of ICE detention centers over the past several years.
Gomez is a paranoid schizophrenic and legal permanent resident who has been in ICE detention for more than four years after an immigration judge declared he was not competent to participate in deportation proceedings against him.
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