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University of Utah Dreamer DetainedICE After Colorado Traffic Stop

Officers were withdrawn from a multi-agency task force after it emerged that shared communications led to her detention

An U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's personnel provides security in the French Quarter prior to Super Bowl LIX, in New Orleans, on Feb. 8, 2025.
Caroline Dias Goncalves, a student at the University of Utah, who was born in Brazil. (Family photo via Go Fund Me)
Caroline Dias Goncalves was pulled over by police in Fruita on Thursday, June 5, while driving to Denver, according to a post on GoFundMe.
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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