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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    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.