Yet Another Immigration Enforcement Hoax That Went Viral

What if I told you that a woman who has pleaded guilty to filing a false police report told a tall tale about the Department of Homeland Security kidnapping her and holding her in two different states incommunicado?

Would you automatically assume it is true and broadcast it as news to the world, creating a viral story that dominated discussion about ICE abuses for days?

Well, it all depends. Since the story makes ICE and the Trump administration look bad, Pravda and a bunch of Democrats ran with it and tried to create a firestorm. And, of course, her story was added to a long list of supposed abuses perpetrated by Trump's gestapo.

A candidate for Congress in Illinois used the story to grab attention for himself, whipping up his credulous Democratic Party supporters in outrage, because everybody knows that ICE is evil and detaining American citizens right and left. If they aren't shooting them as they innocently drop their children off at daycare, that is.

Homeland Security denied the reports, and even provided evidence that she was a liar, but that didn't seem to slow down the true believers.

Homeland Security is the Gestapo, after all. Known liars, while this sympathetic and pretty brown girl certainly is telling the truth. Look at that cute outfit she wears.

HERE ARE THE RECEIPTS:

As we said Sunny Naqvi entered the CBP area at 10:21 am.

Surveillance footage from O’Hare CLEARLY shows her entering secondary inspection at 10:46 a.m., and leaving secondary to the public area at 11:42 a.m.

Her claims of spending 43 hours in DHS custody are FALSE!
https://t.co/GkqWBLS6sn pic.twitter.com/SWOJmMulcy— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) March 11, 2026

After several days of the controversy brewing, the Chicago Tribune did something remarkable, and very unusual in today's media environment: they checked the story out, and it was, of course, a hoax. And one as believable as Jussie Smollett's, which took the world by storm for weeks before it all began to fall apart.

That one made Trump look bad, too. Funny, I know.

https://t.co/9cIk1ZHWxE https://t.co/dGW5xoE1d9— Heather Gustafson (@mommymcgraw) March 11, 2026

The Tribune takes forever to get to the bottom of the story, treating it almost like a human interest piece, with the conclusion many paragraphs down, but they do get to the bottom of it. Sunny is a pathological liar, who has pleaded guilty to filing false police reports, lied about where she works, and who clearly lied about this incident that never happened.

It wasn't just the famously evil DHS who disputed her story; everybody from the airport to the two sheriffs who would have been involved said it never happened, and there is video evidence that she was detained for 90 minutes for questioning about her odd travel itinerary.

Over the weekend, Naqvi’s supporters, including Morrison, said that she had been traveling on a work trip for a German software company, when she was detained at O’Hare. Naqvi had been flying back to the U.S. with five co-workers, all of whom are of South Asian descent and all of whom were detained along with her, Morrison and her sister said.
A LinkedIn page that listed Naqvi as a “Senior Solution Architect” for SAP SE on Monday has now been taken down.
A spokesperson for SAP — a multinational German software company — said that Naqvi had never been employed there, nor had any of its employees been detained at O’Hare.
Neither Naqvi, her sister nor Morrison have provided the identities of the co-workers to Tribune reporters seeking to verify the story.
Meanwhile, statements from the sheriff’s offices in Cook County and Dodge County, Wisconsin, said there was no indication of her being detained at local facilities.
The Department of Homeland Security has an agreement with Dodge County to house immigration-related detainees, including those from the Chicago area, and county officials say that jail logs “confirm that no female inmates or detainees from the federal government were admitted or released.”
“Because no booking of Ms. Naqvi ever took place, the Sheriff’s Office does not have contact information for her; however, we are asking that she contact us so we may speak with her regarding the allegation and obtain evidence of the incident from her,” Dodge County officials wrote in a statement on Monday.
And at the behest of Morrison, Cook County sheriff’s officers got permission to enter and search the Broadview detention center for Naqvi on Friday, but they didn’t find anybody in the cells, spokesperson Matt Walberg said.

Sunny is no longer talking to the press about this, but her lawyer's explanation for all the evidence suggesting that she is lying is that DHS is a big fat liar.

Her attorney, Robert Held, continued to defend her on Tuesday and argued that DHS has a history of misleading the public. Held told the Tribune he reached a CBP chief at O’Hare over the phone earlier on Saturday. That officer allegedly told him that Naqvi had only been detained for two minutes and “was free to walk out the door, and did so,” which Held said was not his understanding of what transpired and he found the government’s account difficult to believe given that “ICE has been dishonest in the past.”
Brittni Rivera, a Chicago immigration lawyer, said she also made calls on Morrison’s behalf Friday to an assistant attorney at the U.S. attorney’s office in Chicago, and they told her Naqvi was not in CBP or ICE custody and “there was no record of her” being processed.

As you can see, massive resources were deployed to find Sunny, with multiple Sheriffs looking for her, and the US Attorney having to investigate what is, obviously, complete bulls**t.

Naqvi said Monday she wasn’t sure where her ID and other belongings were, but she believed her luggage was still at Broadview.
Walberg, the Cook County sheriff’s spokesperson, said officers did not find any luggage in their search of the suburban processing center.
After holding a news conference Sunday, Naqvi’s family declined to answer additional questions from the Tribune.
In a text message to the Tribune, Afzal said: “We’d like everyone to respect our family’s privacy due to safety concerns.”

The Tribune's story doesn't quite conclude that Naqvi is a liar, and I suppose that until she confesses or her whereabouts during her disappearance for a few days are determined, that's fair. But the evidence is overwhelming that she is a liar—she lied about everything else, and is an admitted liar in court—so the real question is why nobody in the media decided to check out her story before blasting it out to the world as fact.

"If your mother tells you she loves you, check it out."

But if a grifter sells a story that makes Trump and ICE look bad, spread it far and wide.

UPDATE: Yet another immigration hoax.

You truly don’t hate the media enough

Boston Globe: Judge orders release of 14-year-old girl detained by federal immigration agents

Homeland Security: The 14-year-old girl was rescued by federal immigration agents from gang members.
pic.twitter.com/3C8DSSFAai— Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) March 12, 2026

Homeland Security
@DHSgov

The passenger’s claims are blatantly FALSE.

Sunny Naqvi, arrived at O’Hare at 10:21 a.m. on March 5, 2026. CBP officers referred her to Secondary, for additional inspection based on law enforcement checks and conducted a baggage exam. 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.

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ABC 7 Chicago
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Sunny Naqvi, a 28-year-old U.S. citizen, is now back at home after spending about 43 hours in Department of Homeland Security custody. https://bit.ly/4ro9Prk

10:46 AM · Mar 10, 2026 4.2M Views

https://x.com/DHSgov/status/2031381095271325805

Guess who owns that particular ABC affiliate...

The House of Mouse.

Disney.

Same with this one...

https://6abc.com/post/fbi-raids-homes-2-bucks-county-men-accused-throwing-explosive-device-nyc-protest/18694022/

Note the “Bucks County Men”

Disney is paying for agitprop.

In my area (blue state) this was all over the news. I didn't watch (I don't watch television) but my wife did, and all day long, every time I walked by, this was the story on the Chyron. Here is what Boston.com had to say about it: Immigration officials ordered to release Marlborough 14-year-old detained apparently as ‘hostage’ to target her father, Rep. Trahan says The teenage girl was apparently used to bait her father during an "overnight attempt," Rep. Lori Trahan said.

A federal judge ordered immigration officials to release a Marlborough 14-year-old and reunite her with her family after, a Massachusetts lawmaker said, agents detained her and transferred her out of the state. “To be absolutely clear, a 14-year-old girl should never have been detained in the first place. The fact that it took a federal court order to return a child to her family is a damning indictment of DHS policy,” U.S. Rep. Lori Trahan wrote on social media Wednesday evening. Trahan issued an initial statement about the incident Wednesday afternoon. On Tuesday, the teenage girl from Marlborough with no criminal history was detained by immigration agents, she said. The girl was apparently used to “coerce” her father into turning himself in for deportation during an “overnight attempt to use her as a hostage,” according to Trahan. “As a mother to 15- and 11-year-old daughters, I am furious. This is not immigration enforcement. It’s the deliberate targeting of a child to inflict maximum pain on her family,” Trahan said.

Trahan did not include any other identifying information about the girl, her family, or what led to the arrest.

Lauren Bis, deputy assistant secretary for public affairs at the Department of Homeland Security, refuted Trahan’s claims and said that the girl was saved from gang members. “ICE did NOT arrest a 14-year-old girl—our officers RESCUSED [sic] her from suspected gang members,” Bis said in a statement. According to Bis, the girl was detained as ICE pursued two people, identified as Igor Jose Cordeiro Ferreira, 28, and Lucas Da Silva Senes De Almeida, 25. They are both “illegal aliens” from Brazil that are affiliated with Primeiro Comando da Capital, a crime syndicate based in South America, she said. Bis described them as “suspected Primeiro Comando da Massachusetts gang members.” The girl was with the two men, but did not identify either of them as legal guardians to federal authorities. Agents confirmed that she was not related to either of them, Bis said.

“Based on this information and to ensure the safety and security of the minor, she was placed in the custody of Health and Human Services, Office of Refugee Resettlement within hours of the initial encounter. As standard protocol, she will remain in ORR custody pending the identification of legal guardians,” Bis said.

The vehicle that Cordeiro Ferreira and Senes De Almeida were in when agents arrested them was connected to an alleged attempted home invasion in Walpole earlier this month, according to Bis. The girl is not enrolled in Marlborough Public Schools, a spokesperson for the district said in a statement. Trahan drew a line between this alleged incident and the detainment of Liam Ramos. The 5-year-old was detained by federal agents in Minnesota earlier this year. The boy’s mother and others accused ICE of using Ramos as “bait” in order to take other members of his family into custody. Federal officials have denied this.

Images of him being escorted by a federal agent into an ICE vehicle went viral online, prompting widespread outrage. Ramos and his father were eventually released following a judge’s order. That judge sharply criticized the Trump administration for its “ill-conceived and incompetently-implemented government pursuit of daily deportation quotas.” Trahan said that there are similarities between the two cases. “The nation watched in horror as a little boy with a blue bunny hat and Spiderman backpack was taken into custody by federal immigration authorities,” she said. “The ordeal was so heinous that a federal judge ordered his release and called it ‘cruel’ and ‘bereft of human decency.’ But now, federal immigration agents seem to be doing it again, this time here in Massachusetts.”

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