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.

  • arin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    813·
    11 hours ago

    DNC shot themselves in the face, no one liked the former VP. We could have Bernie Sanders and win by a landslide if the DNC didn’t put him under the bus

    • Serinus@lemmy.world
      10·
      10 hours ago

      This is like blaming a school shooting victim for being in the hallway instead of in their classroom.

      Yeah, it would’ve helped. Yeah, they should’ve been where they’re supposed to be. None of that is the real issue, and it’s insulting to bring it up in the context of the shooting.

    • someguy3@lemmy.world
      72·
      10 hours ago

      And I think we’re back to: See article and this is what you voted for protest-non-voters.

      • Dalkor@lemmy.world
        3·
        10 hours ago

        You see i did vote blue so this doesnt include me, but logically, you could make the exact opposite argument. This is what the DNC wanted by not courting people who clearly defined what it would have taken to get their vote. I dont agree with the protest voters actions, but i do agree with their principles.

        • Vespair@lemmy.zipEnglish
          2·
          6 hours ago

          But you can’t control the DNC. You can control you. So do what you can, vote. But also, don’t stop at voting. The only way the DNC moves is if we push them. Or we grassroots and build the viable infrastructure for a third party. Or we burn everything down and start from scratch. But whatever else we are doing, we can also vote. So yes, you’re right about what the DNC should have done, but we can only influence them, we are not them. But we are responsible for our own autonomy. So fucking vote, and vote correctly, not cutely.