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Sarah Shaw ICE detention: New Zealand mother and son freed after three weeks, but how did they end up there?

Sarah Shaw and her son Issac faced detention at the Canadian border due to a visa issue. Shaw, a youth counsellor, was preparing for graduate school. An administrative error led to their detention by ICE. They were transferred to a family detention center in Texas. Shaw alleges ICE threatened her and her son was detained despite having a valid visa. Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads How did she get caught? Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads A New Zealand woman and her young son, who were detained for more than three weeks in a Texas immigration facility, are now safely back at their home in Washington woman, Sarah Shaw, and her six-year-old son Issac were detained at the Canadian border more than three weeks ago because she mistakenly tried to leave and re-enter the United States without both parts of her visa who works as a youth counsellor at a juvenile detention facility in Everett, Washington, had been preparing to start graduate school on July 25 when she and Isaac were taken into July 24, Shaw drove her two eldest children, Grace, 11, and Seth, 9, to the airport in Vancouver for a direct flight to New Zealand, where they would visit their grandparents, according to did not go on the trip because he was not old enough to fly Shaw and Isaac attempted to cross back into the United States, they were detained by border officials. A GoFundMe page for her says ICE acted on incorrect information about their asked officers to allow her to apply for humanitarian parole , a process meant to prevent family separation and address exceptional she was told her request had already been made and denied. According to her legal team, that claim was false; no parole request had ever been per a NZHerald report, Shaw's lawyer, Minda Thorward, informed local media that the mother possessed a temporary immigration document allowing her to travel and re-enter the US. However, there was an 'administrative error' related to the ICE detention, and instead of being processed in Washington state, ICE transferred her and Isaac to the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, one of only two family detention facilities in the also reported that ICE officers threatened to confiscate her phone if she continued to contact her lawyer, a threat that was carried out. Meanwhile, her young son was also kept in detention despite holding a valid visa.