ROBERTSON COUNTY, Tenn. (WZTV) — A woman in Robertson County is launching a public campaign for her husband's release from an ICE detention center, after she says federal immigration officials detained him at a local courthouse after a traffic ticket, and have held him unrightfully for more than three months.On March 4, ICE agents took Orlin Carrasco, 29, and multiple others into custody inside the Robertson County Courthouse after they appeared before a judge on local traffic charges of driving without a license.After Carrasco paid a fine, his wife, Maria Flores, said ICE detained him."An officer asked them to step into another room when they had told them, 'You're being arrested now,'" Flores said.Flores, a U.S. citizen, said Carrasco entered the United States without documentation as a minor, when he was 17, to flee gangs trying to recruit high school students in Honduras."If you rejected them [the gangs], they would just kill you," said Flores. "And in a lot cases, a lot of his friends did die. A lot of people that were his classmates, they weren't able to get out of that situation."Carrasco fled to the U.S. alone as a teen, unaccompanied over the border. Flores notes that before her husband's March court appearance, Carrasco had already opened an asylum case, obtained a work permit and driver's license, and filed federal paperwork to be recognized as her spouse [the couple had wed in 2021]."You have something already in process, in the works... which makes you feel a little bit more secure... but obviously not," Flores said.Flores said ICE has continued to hold Carrasco in a Louisiana detention facility since March, and that he has not received a clear explanation as to why he remains in custody.The couple hired an attorney and are pursuing legal action."Now we are just waiting for his habeas corpus... to give us a legal reason to why he's still being held, because we don't know why," Flores said. "He has no order of deportation. He never did... He doesn't have any criminal charges. He's not a criminal," Flores said. "Since he turned 18 years old, he's been paying taxes for years."Carrasco's attorney Alexandra Lopez said DHS is trying to reopen his case from when he entered unauthorized at 17 years old, which is no longer active. The case is also out of North Carolina, and not Louisiana. Back in 2013, Lopez said an immigration judge in Charlotte, North Carolina administratively closed Orlin's case, meaning it was taken off the active docket."ICE claims they are holding Orlin under a statute that requires 'mandatory detention,' said Lopez in an email to FOX17. "However, that law strictly requires a person to be in an active, live removal proceeding. Orlin does not have an active case. When ICE originally arrested him and dragged him to Louisiana, they charged him using a legally void document. An Immigration Judge rightfully threw that case out. Under the law, Orlin should have walked out the door that exact day."Supporters of the Trump administration's immigration enforcement efforts argue that entering the country without authorization carries legal consequences.During a January 2025 White House press briefing, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said, "It's a big culture shift in our nation to view someone who breaks our immigration laws as a criminal, but that's exactly what they are."Flores is now working to build public support for her husband's release, organizing a vigil Wednesday outside her home in Springfield. "I told him that I would do everything in my hands that I could to help him and for him to be released, which is my goal right now," Flores said.The Department of Homeland Security has not yet responded to FOX 17 News' request for comment.Flyer below created by Maria Flores for vigil supporting husband's release from ICE custody. "We have asked the federal court to put the government on a highly expedited timeline to answer for this illegal detention. We hope the court will recognize this severe executive overreach, grant our Habeas Corpus petition, and order Orlin reunited with his family," said Lopez.