Law enforcement officials are challenging an Illinois woman’s claim that the Department of Homeland Security detained her for nearly two days after she returned home from traveling overseas.
Sunny Naqvi originally claimed she spent two days in detention after flying into Chicago’s O’Hare airport on March 5, following a trip to Turkey. The woman, who lives in a Chicago north suburb, alleged that DHS brought her first to the Broadview Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview and then took her to another location in Wisconsin.
But new details are undermining her credibility.
First, Homeland Security posted photos purporting to show Naqvi being questioned at O’Hare for about 90 minutes before being released.
Two sheriffs’ offices have also questioned her claims.
Both the Cook County Sheriffs’ Office and the Dodge County Sheriffs’ Office said they have no records of her being in their custody, according to Block Club Chicago.
“The Dodge County Sheriff’s Office has no record of the individual referenced ever being booked, detained, or released from the Dodge County Jail,” department officials stated. “Jail logs confirm that no female inmates or detainees from the federal government were admitted or released during the timeframe in which these events were alleged to have occurred.”
Her supporters have also gone silent.
“Naqvi’s attorney, told Block Club on Thursday that he is no longer commenting about the case and declined to put a reporter in touch with Naqvi,” the news outlet reported. “He referred all questions to her sister, [Sarah] Afzal.”
Her sister used a telltale line often seen in hate crime hoaxes: that it is not about the particular controversy but about the bigger picture.
“She doesn’t want this to be about her. This is about everyone illegally detained,” Sarah Afzal, her sister, said recently.
Other questions have also been raised about her credibility. The company she claimed to be traveling on behalf of says she is not an employee.
The liberal Chicago Tribune also reported that Naqvi previously served two years on probation to end accusations that she falsely accused someone of sexual harassment. The Tribune reported that Naqvi did not provide the requested cell phone data, which reportedly shows her being moved to various ICE facilities.
Naqvi also claimed that her five fellow travelers were detained, a claim under scrutiny.
“No one involved in the case has released names or any other information on the five people who were supposedly traveling with Naqvi, but SAP SE said none of its employees were on the trip or any flight with Naqvi,” Block Club Chicago reported.
The same news outlet noted that political candidates who previously championed the allegedly aggrieved woman’s cause are now going silent.
Meanwhile, a Cook County Republican commissioner said this case seems like another Jussie Smollett-type hoax.
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