JUNEAU, Wis. — The family of a Skokie, Illinois, woman wants some answers:
> Why did federal agents detain her at the O’Hare airport in Chicago on March 5 as she deplaned from a flight from Turkey?
> Why did the agents then take her to an ICE detention center a few miles away in Broadview?
> Then why — days later, as the woman claims — did the agents drive her 150 miles into Wisconsin and dump her on the doorstep of a county jail with a dead phone and no way to get home?
The attorney for the woman, 28-year-old Sundras “Sunny” Naqvi, a U.S. citizen, said she walked to a nearby 24/7 gas station and caught a ride from a stranger to a hotel, where her family picked her up. The attorney, Robert Held, now is calling on the U.S. Homeland Security Department, which runs border control sub-agencies, to explain itself. About Naqvi’s report that she was transported to the Dodge County jail in Juneau, the sheriff says the jail log has no record of a female inmate from ICE being admitted or released. In an interview with WMTV in Madison. Naqvi’s attorney said: “It’s very troubling what’s going on, The government has lost credibility.” The saga suggests a possibility that border agents at O’Hare messed up in arresting Naqvi and, recognizing their error, attempted a cover-up by erasing or doctoring records and by disappearing her to Wisconsin. The situation is complicated the fact that the Dodge County has long-standing partnership as Wisconsin’s only jail to accept ICE detainees.
Naqvi. A U.S. citizen who had been in Torkey. Arrested by border agents at Chicago airport and then, she claims, was “disappeared”