In March, several people, among them Cook County, Illinois Commissioner Kevin Morrison, emitted howls of outrage over the arrest and 2-day detention by Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) of 28-year-old Sundas “Sunny” Naqvi. Now, that’s not all that unusual; there is no goblin so criminal, so vicious, that some Democrats somewhere won’t screech like banshees at the notion of detaining or deporting them.
But in this case, the howls of outrage on the left are being replaced by howls of laughter on the right, as we learn now that Ms. Naqvi made the whole thing up; while supposedly “detained,” she was instead in a hotel, dining and getting spa treatments.
An Illinois woman who claimed she was detained by ICE for nearly two days was actually relaxing at a hotel getting spa treatments, according to a $1 million defamation suit filed by a county sheriff.
US citizen Sundas “Sunny” Naqvi, 28, gained national attention last month when she and a band of supporters – including Cook County, Ill., Commissioner Kevin Morrison – publicly insisted she was unlawfully detained by ICE officers for roughly 43 hours.
Naqvi claimed that after landing back in the US from a work trip to Turkey on the morning of March 5, she was detained for nearly 30 hours at Chicago O’Hare International Airport, then transferred to another ICE facility in Broadview, Ill., before winding up at Dodge County Jail in Wisconsin.
Well, there’s just one problem with Naqvi’s claims: They are utter corral litter, suitable only for enriching lawns. But that didn’t stop a Cook County Commissioner from stepping up, opening his mouth, and inserting his foot.
Morrison, who called the Chicago-area native his “best friend’s sister,” shared questionable screenshots of Naqvi’s location at the Juneau, Wisc., jail on Facebook – and decried the alleged incident during a tense media conference alongside Naqvi’s sister March 8.
“This is a 28-year-old girl just left on the street by ICE in another state, without her property,” the commissioner said.
Except, she wasn’t.
He claimed Naqvi was released from custody in the early hours of March 7, then hitchhiked nine miles to a hotel, where she was met by family.
The Department of Homeland Security called the claims “blatantly false” – and even posted surveillance footage from the airport showing Naqvi entering a secondary inspection zone that morning and leaving around an hour later.
Nope. None of that was true, either. And the Department of Homeland Security had proof – to paraphrase the late, great Warner Wolf, they said, “Let’s go to the videotape!”
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But it gets better. In fact, here’s the best part:
Now Naqvi and Morrison are the subjects of a federal defamation lawsuit filed by Dodge County Sheriff Dale Schmidt on Friday – as his office released new details of Naqvi’s actual actions during the alleged hoax period.
“She checked into the Hampton Inn and Suites in Rosemont, Ill., for the entire duration of this alleged event,” Schmidt said during a press conference, where he presented a hotel bill and text receipts to illustrate Naqvi’s time there.
The folio shows Naqvi checked in at the Hampton Inn – just a 10-minute drive from the airport – at 1:17 p.m. March 5, while text messages with an unidentified witness over the following days show she enjoyed free food, spa services and trips to the gym.
She not only lied about where she’d been and what she’d been doing, but she left text messages as a trail of electronic bread crumbs. Did she really think she wouldn’t be found out? I mean, hiding away in a hotel is one thing, but the spa services and gym, that’s just taking being not only a liar, but a dumb liar, clean to the next level.
Now she’s in some trouble. Who didn’t see that coming?
Liars always seem to get caught, sooner or later, either that or they get elected to political office. This liar got busted, and yes, in all such cases, it’s perfectly appropriate for honest people to point and laugh.
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