The Minor Inconvenience Of A Kavanaugh Stop

 Separate and apart from the 14th amendment, who decides if you are a U.S. citizen?

Apparently, ICE does:

A 22-year-old woman is now being detained at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Texas, after initially being held in Louisiana.

Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales's family said she was pulled over by ICE agents last Sunday, held in Baltimore, and then flown to Louisiana.

Her lawyers said ICE has ignored Diaz Morales's claims she is a United States citizen, and they have a birth certificate and other documentation to prove her U.S. citizenship.

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"It is an indisputable fact that she was born inside the United States. I've seen her birth certificate. We have immunization records. We have multiple affidavits from people who were there at her birth," Slatton said. "I've personally called the hospital, and they confirm they do have records. They just cannot release them at this time. But we are working on getting additional evidence, but we have her birth certificate. That should be enough. She never should have been picked up in the first place."

Diaz Morales's lawyers have since fought back in federal court.

Last week, Maryland District Court Judge Brendan Hurson sided with them and ruled she cannot be removed from the United States for now.

"Specifically, respondents, including all those acting for them or on their behalf, are enjoined from removing Petitioner Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales from the United States or altering her legal status during the pendency of this action, subject to further order of this Court," Judge Hurson wrote.

All of which means nothing to DHS.

In an interview with CNN Tuesday, Slatton said she was only able to find out Diaz Morales was in Texas was through the ICE detainee locator.

"I have not been able to talk to her. I was supposed to be able to speak to her in a confidential meeting...when we connected to that meeting, we were told that she was transferred," Slatton said in her CNN interview. "Her family was told she's being deported, thank goodness that was not the case."

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Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin insisted Diaz Morales "is not a U.S. citizen" and claimed "she did not provide a valid U.S. birth certificate or any evidence in support of her claim that she is a U.S. citizen."

McLaughlin also said Diaz Morales was questioned by border patrol in 2023 near the Arizona-Mexico border and told authorities then that she was a Mexican citizen.

Ms. Diaz Morales is, in other words, guilty until proven innocent. And she’s got a non-Anglo name (unlike “Miller,” which was not the family name hysterically grandparents came from Russia with) and doesn’t look Anglo, so she doesn’t belong here. Best to keep her in custody, at least.

When does ICE start wondering about Sotomayor?