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 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!?