MADISON, Wis. (Gray) - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Dodge County Sheriff’s Office are denying claims made by a 28-year-old U.S. citizen who says she was detained at Chicago O’Hare International Airport by immigration agents and transferred to a Wisconsin detention facility.
On Tuesday, DHS issued a written statement addressing the allegations.
“The passenger’s claims are blatantly FALSE,” the statement read. “Ms. Naqvi departed CBP within 90 minutes of her arrival to the United States. Ms. Naqvi was not taken into custody or transferred to ICE for detention.”
WMTV 15 requested surveillance footage from O’Hare to verify DHS’s stated timeline. That request was denied, and DHS referred back to its statement.
The Dodge County Sheriff’s Office has also stated it has no records of Naqvi being held at the Dodge County Jail. The sheriff’s office suggested that a photo appearing to show Naqvi’s phone location pinging at the Wisconsin detention facility could have been falsified.
Naqvi’s attorney, Robert Held, said he is an “unskilled IT person” and cannot verify the technical authenticity of the photos, but that the screenshots of her location were sent directly to him by Naqvi’s sister, Sara Afzal.
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MADISON, Wis. (Gray) - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Dodge County Sheriff’s Office are denying claims made by a 28-year-old U.S. citizen who says she was detained at Chicago O’H...