Family and friends of a U.S. citizen from the northern suburbs say they are furious after she was detained by federal officers at O’Hare International Airport and held for more than 30 hours.
Supporters of Sundas Naqvi, 28, gathered on Sunday outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Broadview Processing Center, where she was initially brought from O’Hare.
Naqvi wasn’t released some 30 hours hour after she was brought to a separate processing facility in Wisconsin.
“What occurred on Thursday and Friday was a U.S. citizen detained with no cause,” said Kevin Morrison, a Cook County Commissioner who represents the 15th District. “All she was told was that there was some curious travel history but they had no cause to detain her for those 30 hours.”
Friends and family said the 28-year-old’s iPhone pinged at the Broadview facility, and even though that’s what her location showed, family members claimed federal officials and local police denied Naqvi was there.
Sheriff deputies were eventually allowed access to the cells and saw that Naqvi was not present.
Her phone location eventually reappeared at a detention facility in Dodge County, Wisconsin, nearly 150 miles away.
Naqvi’s sister says law enforcement lied to them.
“We were told that she wasn’t here we saw her location on in the middle of the facility, we saw her location in Wisconsin in the middle of the facility,” she said. “The cops were lying to our faces. They were saying we were asking them, ‘hey her location was here, we were in contact with her,’ and they’d say ‘we don’t know what to tell you.'”
Naqvi is a U.S. citizen and was born in Evanston.
Her family said she was detained due to travel patterns when she returned from Turkey, but specifics remain unclear.
Relatives said their biggest concern is that if it can happen to a U.S. citizen, it could happen to anyone.
NBC Chicago has reached out to U.S. Customs and Border Protection for a statement, but we have yet to receive a response.
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