LOS ANGELES — After Huntington Park police arrested Jose Luis Maldonado Aguilar on suspicion of public intoxication, they didn't book him with a crime.
Instead, they detained him until immigration officials could pick him up.
During his 46 days at an immigration detention center in the high desert, he lost his job as a construction worker, and several of his cars were repossessed, according to his attorneys. His family almost became homeless.
