One of the narratives of the media’s propaganda campaign to protect illegal alien criminals was the claim that ICE was assaulting, arresting and killing American citizens. Part of this was manufactured by radicals putting themselves in the way of federal law enforcement officers and, like Good and Pretti, actively assaulting federal agents, but some of it just consisted of straight up lies.
Case in point, this hoax that had been making the rounds of the media about an American citizen ‘being detained by ICE for 48 hours’.
Summer Sundas “Sunny” Naqvi’s family alleges the 28-year-old woman was taken into custody Thursday morning at O’Hare International Airport after arriving on a flight from Istanbul. Naqvi, whom Cook County records show was born in Evanston, allegedly told her family that she was detained at the airport and then taken to Immigration and Customs Enforcement centers in two different states. Cook County Commissioner Kevin Morrison, a family friend, told the Tribune that Naqvi was sent to an ICE facility in west suburban Broadview and, later, a Wisconsin jail that frequently houses Chicago-area detainees before she was released.
And most of the media decided that the story was too goo not to run with.
But in a statement Monday, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesperson said that Naqvi had only been directed through additional security screening upon arriving at the Chicago airport Thursday and was cleared to leave. She “departed CBP” of her own volition less than two hours after landing, the statement said.
“The passenger’s claims are blatantly false,” said Harry Fones, principal deputy assistant secretary for public affairs for the Department of Homeland Security. “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.”
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.”
Reached by phone Monday afternoon, Naqvi did not dispute the version of events shared by Morrison and her sister.
Pressed on the chronology of her detention beginning at O’Hare — and then Broadview and then Wisconsin — Naqvi said she did not want to make a statement.
By Tuesday, she stopped answering questions.
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… https://t.co/GkqWBLS6sn pic.twitter.com/SWOJmMulcy
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) March 11, 2026
This looks a whole lot like a young woman making up a story to her family to explain where she was for a few days, and she picked a story that was based on what she was hearing about on the news.
She wouldn’t be the first girl to do something stupid like that.
Her family took it more seriously and a family friend of hers happens to be a local official running for Congress took it to the media.
Morrison, a Democratic candidate in Illinois’ 8th Congressional District, said Monday he still found Naqvi’s version of events credible. He said he saw her both Saturday and Sunday after she came home, and “I think it was finally hitting her, what had transpired.”
The posts sparked immediate backlash, with a hastily organized protest in Broadview Friday night. U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin and several Democratic candidates in next week’s primary election issued public condemnations of the alleged treatment of a U.S. citizen. On Sunday, Morrison and other political candidates held a news conference outside the immigration processing facility in Broadview demanding answers.
Did they know it was a hoax back then? Or was it just too good to check?
Now here’s where the institutional corruption really kicks in. The media should have done basic fact checking before running with a story that consisted of “she told her, and he told him, and then he told us” that never made any sense.
And even the Chicago Tribune, which deconstructs the story, doesn’t mention a huge red flag until halfway down.
Public records show that Naqvi pleaded guilty in 2022 to making a false police report alleging sexual assault in 2019. She completed two years of probation for that case in 2024, records show, and the case was then dismissed.
The media didn’t bother with those records.
It should at the very least have waited to get a statement. Instead the media went with a hoax because it wanted to believe it and because it was politically useful and because, much like the CNN reporting that implied Mamdani had been the target of the Muslim terrorist attack in NYC, most people will hear the lie and not the correction.
