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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      Yea, I dont understand the political split. Democrats “claim” Hispanics, but Hispanics are conservative Catholics and against anything Pro Choice. Republicans are racist and dream of doing fascist stuff like this … yet half the Hispanics voted for them.

      Something something big cats … something something face eating.

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        Corrected to almost half. Still insane that so many voted for Trump, and that Trump broke the Republican record for Latino votes!?!?

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          It doesn’t if you know Latino culture, they like the manly man steretype that Trump somehow fostered by popping off bullshit.

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    Send this to everyone who says people have nothing to worry about if they’re in the country legally

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      She’s wasn’t even “in the country legally” she is a fucking natural born citizen. She committed the crime of brownness

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        So if asked “was she in the country legally” you’d answer “no, because she was a citizen”? That makes zero sense to my autistic brain. I’d answer “yes, because she was a citizen”

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          If someone asked you to describe your immigration status, would you say “I’m in the country legally” if you were born there?

          Subtext exists, and is pretty important to recognize when it’s used for propaganda.

          I understand you weren’t using it that way on purpose.

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            I’d actually probably freeze up because I have trouble answering questions with false assumptions, the assumption here being I’m an immigrant. If someone asked “are you in the country legally”, I’d say yes and potentially not even realize they think I’m an immigrant

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            I’m autistic. I mean exactly what I say. I didn’t think stating the fact that she was in the country legally somehow implied she was an immigrant. Besides, my point was that in general people who are there legally are being detained unjustly, that applies to all legal residents, both immigrants and citizens

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              A legal resident and a citizen, in the context of immigration, are entirely different things.

              It does actually imply she is an immigrant.

              Saying “legal resident” implies “green card holder”, not “citizen”.

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                My original comment didn’t say legal resident, it said in the country legally. Citizens in the country are in the country legally

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            No, I just have a problem with being contradicted when I’m right. Was she in the country? Yes. Was it legal for her to be in the country? Yes. How was she not “in the country legally”? I never said she was from elsewhere

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              I was agreeing with and elevating the point you were making by stating that beyond being here legally, it is impossible for her to be here illegally because she was born here. Jesus fucking Christ why do you need to split every single hair!? And you can edit a comment when you come up with something else to say, you can quit replying twice and three times.

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        A person who is physically present in the country is either there legally or illegally. It seems you object to my phrasing because, as a natural born citizen, there shouldn’t have been a need to distinguish if she was there legally or not. But sadly it was in question, shouldn’t have been but was.

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          No they are not. “Legal resident” is a specific legal classification different from “citizen.” You are confusing the dictionary definition of words with legal definitions.

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            But it was legal for her to be in the country. Citizens are in the country legally.

            How can she not be called a legal resident? She is a resident and it is legal for her to be

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              “Legal resident” is an open compound word spelled with a space, not an adjective modifying a noun. An elementary school at the top of a hill is not a “high school” even though it is high and also a school. This is because “high school” is a word that means specifically secondary school (in North America at least), which excludes primary/elementary schools. Likewise in the United States, a “legal resident” refers to a non-citizen lawful permanent resident, not just any person who resides in a country legally.

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              You’re right. Here’s the best image I could find explaining the issue of the semantics here:

              Permanent Residency VS Citizenship Comparison Chart Permanent Residency | Citizenship It means you are allowed to live and work in the country on a permanent basis. | It means you were either born anywhere in the US or within its territories. You are not issued a US passport, but an Alien Registration Card (ARC) by the USCIS. | Citizenship can get you an American passport. You can’t vote, serve on a jury, and work certain government jobs. | You can vote and are eligible for Federal jobs, and you receive protection from deportation. Permanent residency status can be cancelled. | Citizenship cannot be cancelled. DifferenceBetween.net

              Are both residents and citizens legal residents? Sure. In the context of immigration law the citizen would probably only be described as such unless the context made it clear someone was using more of the dictionary definition than the legal definition as the parent commenter alluded to.

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                That chart doesn’t include “Naturalized Citizenship.” A naturalized citizen (for example, Arnold Schwarzenegger or Melania Trump) was born elsewhere but has been vetted and tested and taken an oath to become a citizen. They can vote, and serve on a jury, and work a federal job, and be Governor of California, but they can’t be President.

                And now Trump is trying to revoke the citizenship of all the ones he doesn’t like. He’s also trying to revoke the birthright citizenship of the children of immigrants.

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      Hey, FreshParsnip, I’d just like to point out that JoeBigelow wasn’t really contradicting your original comment (the one I’m replying to) but rather they were amplifying it. Their point was to emphasize the racism of ICE against her “crime of brownness.”

      Not only was she “in the country legally,” she also has the further rights and responsibilities of being a citizen. For instance, she can vote for for President. Beyond that, being a birthright citizen, she can run for the office and BE President.

      A “legal resident,” according to federal statutes, is defined as a person who has met certain legal requirements and received papers entitling them to live here, but cannot legally vote, or serve on a jury, or some other rights reserved for citizens.

      JoeBigelow could definitely have used better syntax, or stuck a “just” in there after “even”.

      And your original point, about ICE being a danger to everyone regardless of how many rights they’re supposed to have, is perfect. They’re fascist thugs.

      But your anger is misdirected. Save it for the real enemy.

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        And now you should minimize Joe’s comment, because that thread is actively painful to read. This is a fine summary and all you want to know about that comment chain.

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    Everything in society is dependent on people doing what they are supposed to, to serve whatever role their place in that system is. When they can freely not do that, they do whatever they want, and then we stop having society because nobody serves the roles that are needed to have one. Then the authoritarians get annoyed people aren’t doing whats needed for them to have a society to be in control of and start beating everyone into compliance. And they have to keep doing that because their system is shit and nobody wants it that way but them.

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      This is why people get confused, because they think authoritarianism is some strong man saying “you can’t do this, you can’t do that”

      There’s a quote about how authoritarianism isnt someone saying “you can’t” but instead it’s someone saying “you may”

      • You may ignore this law
      • You may jail these people
      • You may disregard due process

      That’s the real danger, when rights and law are replaced with the whims and favor of a despot.

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    Throwing US citizens in jail for days seems to be considered by Brett Kavanaugh as brief questioning where the individuals “may promptly go free after making clear to the immigration officers that they are U. S. citizens or otherwise legally in the United States”. And this sort of stuff doesn’t happen according to Kristi Noem.

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    “I kept shouting at them that she was from here, but they wouldn’t listen to me,” the younger sister recalled. Shirley said the stop and her sister’s arrest seemed like racial discrimination: “I showed them our identifications, and they didn’t pay me any attention, they went straight to my sister because she’s darker than me.”

    This is what you voted for protest-non-voters.

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      I disagree. This is what protest-non-voters failed to vote against.

      Saying that they voted for this is implying that it is what they wanted. It is not the same thing as not carefully considering the potential outcomes. I agree that they bear some responsibility for what’s happening because of their failure to engage in the best course of action to prevent it. I do also think it is very much an inaccurate statement to say that it is what they voted for.

      Put simply, intent matters. It doesn’t matter if the material outcome is the same.

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        something tells me dulce consuela diaz morales wouldn’t give a shit about their intents.

        trust me, the history books will not care about anyone’s intents either, just the material outcome they enabled.

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          I’m not rewording anything. I’m stating a disagreement with your wording which I think implies intent where there may be none.

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            Sigh. Since you really need it: You’re twisting yourself into pretzels trying to get out of the message.

            And what you think is implied (in both instances) is not.

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      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

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        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.

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

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          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.

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            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.

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      Hey man, dont judge me, i had to make absolutely no impact on a situation halfway across the world while making my own country much worse.

      I think youll find i did a great job.

      /s

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      Blaming voters is such a weak stance, its always just comes down to personal grievances. Your vote blaming logic could be applied to anyone.

      This is what you voted for, Barack Obama voters! His tepid implementation of DACA left this poor girl with very few legal protections!

      This is what you voted for, Joe Biden voters! Biden could have defunded ICE, instead he gave them billions!

      This is what you voted for, Chester A Arthur voters! Your implementation of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was inevitably going to lead to this!

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          Yea and I’m informing Chester A Arthur voters about what they voted for lol

          The difference is that Arthur voters have more blame on their shoulders, because they actually changed the outcome of an election, unlike “protest non-voters”.

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            because they actually changed the outcome of an election, unlike “protest non-voters”.

            I’m certain that I saw an article on here recently saying the exact opposite of this, but I can’t find it. I’ll look through my comment history maybe to try to find it

            Edit: found it

            https://newrepublic.com/article/204271/why-democrats-lost-2024-election-trump-way-to-win-report

            Oops, looks like you’re gonna have to start lying to yourself if you want to continue pretending that you’re not partially responsible for what is happening in this country right now

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              Your TNR article correctly asserts that Dems lost because they failed to motivate their base. It is explaining how the Democratic Party’s policies on the economy and immigration had a strong negative effect on voter turnout.

              It says nothing about protest voters, and only a passing mention of Gaza. I was under the impression that “protest non voters” referred explicitly to those voters who concerned themselves with the genocide in Palestine.

              If you expand the scope of “protest non voters” to include those who didn’t vote due to the economy or immigration policy, then I agree with you completely.

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                Yes, that’s the reason people give for why they didn’t vote. No shit.

                Still their fault.

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            Your whole spiel was that I was blaming. Now you turn a 180 when I point out that I am informing. Well kinda, because you’re right back to blame. So cheers.

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              Well I’m honestly curious what your intention is when you “inform” these non voters of their mistake.

              Is it all about emotional release? Or do you honestly believe that you can shame these voters into voting correctly next time?

              Why is your focus on this tiny subset of voters, and not focused on Trump voters?

              From my standpoint, you’re just doing more damage to the already fractured Democratic Party base. Damaging the Democratic Party is helping Trump win a third term.

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                I can only speak for myself, but for me it comes from the frustration of arguing with these people over and over before the election, trying to explain why it’s a terrible idea, and then having to live through the past year and seeing them still refuse to accept it.

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                  So it’s all about emotional release, at least you’re honest.

                  Do you agree that this type of rhetoric is divisive; fracturing the Dem party; and ultimately helping Trump and MAGA?

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                  “aT LeASt I dIdNT vOtE FOr geNoCIdE!”

                  Looks like that solved that problem. Hey Gaza, how’s it going over there!?

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    More claiming of fake birth certificates for people who aren’t white enough. Same shit has been happening for people born along the Texas border, because only Latino people can lie about birth certificates apparently.

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    Reminds me of China IL when Pony gets stuck in Mexico, crazy the voice actress went on to make the Barbie movie