{"id":2590838,"date":"2026-04-14T19:57:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T23:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bad-news-for-citizen-who-said-ice-detained-her-for-2-days-as-cops-uncover-the-damning-real-story\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T20:00:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T00:00:01","slug":"bad-news-for-citizen-who-said-ice-detained-her-for-2-days-as-cops-uncover-the-damning-real-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bad-news-for-citizen-who-said-ice-detained-her-for-2-days-as-cops-uncover-the-damning-real-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad News for Citizen Who Said ICE Detained Her for 2 Days as Cops Uncover the Damning Real Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbad-news-for-citizen-who-said-ice-detained-her-for-2-days-as-cops-uncover-the-damning-real-story%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2590838&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A Wisconsin sheriff filed a defamation lawsuit against an Illinois woman after she claimed she was detained by ICE for nearly two days. Sundas \u201cSunny\u201d Naqvi\u2019s story, which went viral and drew sympathetic coverage, was contradicted by hotel records, video footage, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/he-can-do-it-all-trump-brings-on-high-powered-florida-litigator-to-manage-fbi-raid-case\/\" title=\"He can do it all: Trump hires high-powered Florida lawyer to manage FBI raid case\">text messages showing<\/a> she stayed at a Hampton Inn near O\u2019Hare from March 5-8, was seen in Wisconsin the morning of March 7, and did not appear to be in custody.<\/p>\n<p>Receipts and evidence released by Dodge County Sheriff Dale Schmidt, including hotel records and surveillance and communications with a witness, suggest Naqvi\u2019s detention claim was false.The Department of Homeland Security also <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >released surveillance footage indicating<\/a> she entered and left the CBP screening area at O\u2019Hare, undermining the detention narrative. The sheriff is seeking about $1 million in damages and has highlighted the case as an example of misinformation surrounding immigration issues, noting how early media coverage and subsequent corrections shaped public perception.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_2)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>An Illinois woman who made sympathetic headlines a month ago with a tale of being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement is making news of a different kind now &mdash; and she can&rsquo;t be happy about it.<\/p>\n<p>A Wisconsin sheriff last week announced he has filed a defamation suit against Sundas &ldquo;Sunny&rdquo; Naqvi, an American citizen, for including his jail in her story about spending almost two days in ICE custody in March.<\/p>\n<p>And he&rsquo;s got the receipts to back it up.<\/p>\n<p>At a news conference Friday, Dodge County Sheriff Dale Schmidt announced he had a witness who provided proof that far from being in federal lockup, Naqvi spent the time in question staying at a hotel &mdash; paid for by the witness &mdash; and even asked if she could use his credit card to pay for spa services.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dodgecountysheriff.com\/information\/press\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media kit distributed<\/a> as part of the news conference, the sheriff&rsquo;s collected detailed evidence through hotel records, video footage, and texts between Naqvi and the witness that appear to prove conclusively that she had never been in custody at all.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"anyclipvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadAnyclip() { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst container=document.getElementById(\"anyclipvideo\"); 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\t\t\t\t\tobserveElement(paragraphToObserve); \t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>Boiled down, Naqvi claimed that she was originally detained March 5 at Chicago&rsquo;s O&rsquo;Hare International Airport after arriving on a flight from Turkey. She claimed she was taken from the airport to an ICE detention facility in Broadview, Illinois, outside of Chicago. From there, she claimed that she was taken to an ICE holding area in the Dodge County jail in Juneau, Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>Hotel records, however, show her checking in March 5 and checking out March 8 from a Hampton Inn &amp; Suites only minutes away from O&rsquo;Hare. Text messages between Naqvi and the witness &mdash; apparently a suitor who had hopes for a long-term relationship with her &mdash; show her living it up at the hotel before eventually bumming a ride from the witness to go to Wisconsin to be &ldquo;reunited&rdquo; with her family.<\/p>\n<p>She is captured on video at a gas station in Slinger, Wisconsin, at 5:47 a.m. on March 7, at about the same time she claimed she was getting out of the Dodge County jail in Juneau, Wisconsin, about a half hour&rsquo;s drive away.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They are claiming she was in the Dodge County jail being released around this time,&rdquo; Schmidt said at his news conference, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox6now.com\/news\/dodge-county-sheriff-alleged-detention-incident-sundas-naqvi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WITI-TV<\/a> in Milwaukee. &ldquo;Not possible.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Law enforcement officials confirm the woman named sunny naqvi who went viral for claiming to be detained by ICE for 2 days was a HOAX<\/p>\n<p>The Wisconsin sheriff involved in the false claim is now sueing woman over the hoax detention claim and seeking $1 million in damages<\/p>\n<p>The woman&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/blve0YuCBS\">pic.twitter.com\/blve0YuCBS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WallStreetApes\/status\/2043217610041651563?\">April 12, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>All told, the evidence is damning that the story is a hoax &mdash; like too many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/media-outlets-appear-fallen-hoax-regarding-woman-kidnapped-ice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ICE-related hoaxes<\/a> Americans have been hearing during President Donald Trump&rsquo;s second term in office.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Dodge County is not the place you want to make up a hoax about,&rdquo; Schmidt said, according to WITI-TV.<\/p>\n<p>His lawsuit is seeking $1 million from Naqvi as well as Cook County, Illinois Democratic Commissioner Kevin Morrison, WITI reported.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, none of this is the twist Midwesterners might have expected when first presented with coverage of the story.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wgntv.com\/video\/family-demands-answers-raises-awareness-after-u-s-citizen-is-detained-by-border-patrol-at-ohare\/11588520\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WGN-TV<\/a> in Chicago, for instance, gave it a segment of tear-jerking&nbsp;&ldquo;reporting&rdquo; on March 8 that stretched more than three minutes and contained not a second of doubt.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/immigration\/2026\/03\/08\/skokie-woman-citizen-sunny-naqvi-detained-customs-border-patrol-ohare-immigration-ice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chicago Sun Times<\/a> gave credulous coverage to a March 8 news conference about Naqvi called by Morrison.<\/p>\n<p>That article, headlined &ldquo;U.S. citizen from Skokie detained by immigration officials for nearly 30 hours, county commissioner says,&rdquo; later received an editor&rsquo;s note reporting that the Department of Homeland Security disputed Naqvi&rsquo;s story and that there was no confirmation of her detention in Illinois or Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>In a March 11 post on the social media platform X, the Department of Homeland Security included surveillance camera images of Naqvi entering and leaving a Customs and Border Protection screening area at O&rsquo;Hare, basically debunking her story from the beginning.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">HERE ARE THE RECEIPTS:<\/p>\n<p>As we said Sunny Naqvi entered the CBP area at 10:21 am.<\/p>\n<p>Surveillance footage from O&rsquo;Hare CLEARLY shows her entering secondary inspection at 10:46 a.m., and leaving secondary to the public area at 11:42 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Her claims of spending 43 hours in DHS custody&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GkqWBLS6sn\">https:\/\/t.co\/GkqWBLS6sn<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SWOJmMulcy\">pic.twitter.com\/SWOJmMulcy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Homeland Security (@DHSgov) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DHSgov\/status\/2031879248068194404?\">March 11, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>For leftists, stories like Naqvi&rsquo;s fit into the &ldquo;too good to check&rdquo; column: They&rsquo;re tales that seem to substantiate all their worst assumptions about President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/fbi-warned-evidence-used-justify-spying-trump-camp-russian-disinformation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a>, Trump supporters (remember actor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/nigerian-brothers-helped-jussie-smollett-stage-hoax-call-star-big-way\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jussie Smollett&rsquo;s &ldquo;attack&rdquo;<\/a>?), or police and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-tragesser-alternatives-to-immigration-detention-are-deeply-flawed-and-poorly-timed\/\" title=\"Exclusive--Tragesser: Alternatives to ... ... Are Deeply Flawed and Poorly Timed\">immigration enforcement officers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For the believers, their truth isn&rsquo;t nearly as important as the point they&rsquo;re intended to illustrate.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2019, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was still a relatively new face in national politics when she earned herself four Pinocchios from the Washington Post &ldquo;Fact Checker&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2018\/12\/04\/alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-trillion-mistake\/?utm_term=.71b19105dd77\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">column<\/a> for grossly misrepresenting what she called &ldquo;Pentagon accounting errors&rdquo; as being sizable enough to cover two-thirds of the cost of &ldquo;Medicare for all.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In a &ldquo;60 Minutes&rdquo; interview, AOC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/arrogant-ocasio-cortez-trashes-fact-checkers-got-brutally-even-score\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">responded to that criticism<\/a> by lamely arguing that, &ldquo;I think that there&rsquo;s a lot of people more concerned about being precisely, factually, and semantically correct than about being morally right.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Not even CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/01\/07\/politics\/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-facts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bought<\/a> that argument.<\/p>\n<p>The problem for leftists is that the truth matters &mdash; even when it&rsquo;s inconvenient.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump is in the White House for a second term because the American people understood the truth that illegal immigration was a cancer on the country. He&rsquo;s president because Americans understood the truth that the world is a very dangerous place, and the United States needs a president who can control events, not be bamboozled by them.<\/p>\n<p>And the truth is that Democrats and their leftist base will say or do just about anything to hurt his presidency, even if it means hurting the country, too.<\/p>\n<p>Americans need to understand that truth going into November&rsquo;s elections. 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The sheriff says the claim is false and has documentation to support it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Evidence cited by the sheriff includes hotel records showing Naqvi checked into a Hampton Inn near O\u2019Hare from March 5 to March 8, text messages with a witness-who appears to have been a romantic interest-about enjoying the hotel and using his credit card for expenses, and video showing her at a gas station in Slinger, Wisconsin, on March 7. The sheriff argues this timeline contradicts any claim that she was held in a Dodge County jail.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; A news conference and a press kit presented the hotel records, video, and texts as proof she was never in federal custody. The sheriff asserts it\u2019s not possible she was released from a Dodge County jail at the times she described.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; DHS surveillance footage released later reportedly undermined Naqvi\u2019s claim, showing her entering and leaving DHS screening at O\u2019Hare and contradicting her detention narrative.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The sheriff\u2019s lawsuit seeks about $1 million in damages and names Naqvi and Cook County, Illinois official Kevin Morrison, among the defendants, according to reporting.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The story\u2019s coverage varied: some outlets initially aired tearful, sympathetic segments, while later DHS statements and other reporting provided contrary evidence. 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