A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, lawyer was slapped with a misdemeanor charge after authorities said he forged an immigration document.

Jonathan M. Love was charged for making it appear like a Mexican man who wanted to stay in the United States was not eligible, Fox News Latino reported. The charge, which was filed in Seattle's U.S. District Court, followed a civil case filed in 2015 by Ignacio Lanuza against Love and the federal government

Lanuza's civil case sought damages for the legal costs he had to bear, the news outlet added. It was dismissed and appealed, but the case against the federal government still stands.

The U.S. Attorney's Office said that Lanuza's removal process began after he was caught by an ICE officer in 2008, Fox News Latino further reported. Love handled the case in 2009 and submitted a document to the Immigration Court that, according to him, was signed by Lanuza in 2000. Prosecutors said that Love forged the date to make Lanuza not entitled to have his removal from the U.S. canceled.

Matt Adams, Lanuza's representative in the civil case and is a lawyer for the Northwest Immigration Rights Project, said that the charges against Love "are an important step in establishing accountability and sending a clear message that all people are entitled to a fair hearing," Fox News Latino added.

"We hope that the Department of Homeland Security will review all of the cases this ICE attorney handled to determine whether there are other victims who need relief," Adams wrote in an email, as quoted by Fox News Latino.

He continued, "The anti-immigrant forces that express outrage over people violating our immigration law, demanding their immediate deportation, ignore the fact that those same immigration laws provide many people an opportunity to demonstrate that they qualify for lawful residence or other lawful status in this country."

Lanuza married his girlfriend, a U.S. citizen, in 2009, Fox News Latino wrote. He pushed for the cancellation of his ICE removal because of the marriage and also for meeting the requirement of staying in the U.S. continuously for 10 years.

However, Love said that Lanuza lost his right to appear before an immigration judge after he was caught by Border Patrol officials in 2000, the news outlet noted. Love said Lanuza signed a document while with the Border Patrol during that year. Now, Lanuza and prosecutors said that he didn't sign the document and that Love forged the form.

With this, Love, while acting as a lawyer, deprived Lanuza of his constitutional rights, such as the right of a "full and fair immigration removal proceeding free from false and fabricated evidence," Fox News Latino reported.