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.

Lawyer pleads for help 

Diaz Morales's lawyer, Victoria Slatton's videos have gone viral on TikTok. She has repeatedly pleaded for the release of her client and said she fears for her client's safety. 

Diaz Morales was taken into custody as she headed home from Taco Bell, and ICE agents placed her in a van, her family said. 

Her younger sister told HuffPost, "I kept shouting at them that she was from here, but they wouldn't listen to me."

Her lawyer said Diaz Morales was born at a hospital in Laurel, Maryland. 

"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.

"I'm doing everything I can on the legal side, but I am at a loss because this is so far beyond what I ever thought I would be fighting for," Slatton said.

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."

Trump administration responds

WJZ Investigates reached out to the Department of Homeland Security for comment. 

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. 

She also responded to Slatton's claims that she could not get in touch with her client. 

"Any allegation that ICE does not allow detainees to contact legal assistance is false," McLaughlin told WJZ. "All detainees have access to phones to communicate with lawyers."

More briefings in the case are the first week of the new year.