Overview

• Caroline Dias Goncalves, a 19-year-old University of Utah student and Dreamer, was stopped on Interstate 70 outside Loma, Colorado, on June 5
• A Mesa County sheriff’s deputy warned her for allegedly following a semi-truck too closely and released her, then ICE agents arrested her a few miles down the road
• The sheriff’s office discovered its deputies had participated in a communication group with federal, state and local partners and has since removed its members
• Dias Goncalves was born in Brazil, brought to the U.S. at age seven, has no criminal record and maintains a pending asylum application
• She remains in ICE custody at the Denver Contract Detention Facility in Aurora while the Mesa County Sheriff’s Office conducts a full administrative review of the incident