ICE Detained a U.S.-Born American Citizen and Won't Release Her: Attorney

PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MARYLAND—On Sunday, a U.S.-born American citizen was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in what appears to have been a random encounter outside a Maryland business, according to her attorney.

The woman’s name is Dulce Consuelo Morales Diaz, and she was born in 2003 in Prince George’s County. Today, instead of preparing for Christmas with her family, she is being held inside an ICE detention facility in Louisiana, 1,200 miles away from the hospital where she entered the world as an American citizen.

Her attorney, Victoria Slatton, has handled scores of immigration cases. She has never seen anything like this.

“I am her immigration attorney. I have seen her birth certificate,” Slatton told me. “She has immunization records from when she was a child. They’re from the state of Maryland. I personally called the hospital. They confirmed she was in their system during the time period consistent with her birth. There is no way to manufacture that. It’s an indisputable fact. She is American.”

And yet, ICE took her anyway. Despite knowing she is an American, her attorney said the feds are keeping Morales Diaz in custody. They assigned her an A-Number—an “illegal alien ID”—and gave her a different country of origin: Mexico.

“She wasn’t born in Mexico,” her attorney said.

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