Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales was arrested on Sunday. ICE won’t release her despite extensive documentation of her citizenship, her attorneys told HuffPost.

A Maryland woman has spent days in immigration detention despite being a U.S. citizen with a valid birth certificate and other documentation — documents ICE claims aren’t authentic, her attorneys told HuffPost Thursday.

Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales, 22, was born in Maryland and spent time in Mexico before coming back to the United States, Victoria Slatton, one of the attorneys working on her case, told HuffPost in a phone call Thursday. Slatton has worked to draw attention to Diaz Morales’ case, including in several TikTok videos.

Shirley Elvirita, Diaz Morales’ 17-year-old sister, told HuffPost over the phone Thursday night that she, her sister and their father were doing laundry in Baltimore on Sunday, and afterwards, the sisters went to pick up some Taco Bell. After getting back on the road, Shirley recalled, they were surrounded by several vehicles filled with law enforcement personnel, who pulled them over. Officers ignored Shirley’s questions and took her sister “forcefully” into one of the vans. They told Shirley they would let her go – but not her sister.

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    I read till I saw “radical Democrats” and I knew all I needed to. You’re one of them “I’m totally a leftist on the Internet trust me bro” types, but probably some opposition bot or some shit

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      It’s entirely fair to call me on that. To be more specific I had AOC in mind when I’d written this, particularly her decision to vote present when the Biden admin was forcing striking rail workers back to work. It’d kind of felt like a stab in the back at the time and still does but she’s shown herself to be a person of principle and character since then so whether it was a misstep or a tactical decision I was misunderstanding I’ve softened a lot since then where she’s concerned. She’s not perfect obviously, no one in politics is and I learned a long time ago to not let perfect be the enemy of good but that still doesn’t excuse enabling the status quo when other options exist. I think we’re in a real crisis and I was especially angry about that when this was written, I’d said it was important to organize and network within your community, to take real action to reduce harm and to drum up support for real justice when the time comes, only to be hit with “Why organize when so many ‘leftists’ wouldn’t even vote for Harris?” I’m paraphrasing as the comment has long since been deleted. This argument that we’re in this mess because others voted wrong or stuck to a purity test boils my blood because not only do I think it’s factually incorrect, it doesn’t do a damn thing to fix the very real problems we’re currently facing. I’m fed up with Schumer and the establishment Dems, and I’m even more fed up with progressives who wind up like Fetterman and compromise on their earlier principles but I recognize the need to work with less radical liberals because the alternative is pretty plainly fascism

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        Counterpoint: Beggars can’t be choosers, but choosers can become beggars. Those who didn’t vote for harm reduction and are currently without income and social assistance personify that fact. I appreciate your stance, but have no sympathy for those who chose 2024 to “put their foot down”.