Overview
- ICE says it arrested Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales on December 14 in Baltimore and maintains she is a Mexican national with a prior CBP encounter in 2023.
- Her attorneys presented a watermarked Maryland birth certificate and immunization records, saying hospital and county officials confirmed her birth and issued documents.
- Newsweek reports the legal team shared redacted copies of those records, while DHS reiterated she did not provide a valid U.S. birth certificate.
- A federal judge, Brendan Hurson, issued an order prohibiting deportation pending a hearing, yet the family was told she had been deported, which DHS did not confirm.
- Attorneys and relatives say they cannot reliably reach her after a reported transfer to a Louisiana facility, while ICE says detainees have phone access and that her case is receiving due process.