A family in Maryland is trying to find a woman arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), whose attorneys say is an American citizen but the government insists is Mexican.
Agents arrested Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales, 22, on December 14 in Baltimore while she was heading home with her sister.
Despite her saying she was born in the U.S., she was held in ICE custody after failing to prove citizenship, the agency said. Attorneys rushed to get a court order keeping her in Maryland, but the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) moved her to Louisiana anyway.
Her family has now been told she has been deported, despite U.S. District Judge Brendan Hurson ruling Thursday that she could not be deported pending a hearing. Perez and colleague Victoria Slatten said they had not been able to confirm Diaz Morales’ whereabouts.
That’s why CBS pulled that stupid 60 minutes episode. After getting the criminal records from all 50 states, ICE, and the countries they were from, they claimed 97% of the people deported to El Salvador had never committed a violent crime. Something like half had never committed any crime. And being that immigration is a civil dispute, not a criminal one, it means all those people who were locked up and treated that were infact not criminals at all.