A major controversy erupted after the federal administration refuted claims by Sunny Naqvi’s family members that he was detained for nearly 43 hours after arriving at the Chicago airport, although Naqvi is a US citizen. The Department of Homeland Security said the claims were completely false. Naqvi was sent for secondary inspection which delayed him by 90 minutes. And he was not detained or transferred to ICE for detention. After DHS’s claim, many social media users investigated Sunny Naqvi’s old cases and called him a lying fraud.

Ex-boyfriend accused of sexual harassment, assault

Citing old reports, he claimed that Naqvi was the same woman who was accused of intimidating and unlawfully restraining her in 2019. Her ex-boyfriend at the time complained that after their breakup, Naqvi had contacted her to remove a social media post on Reddit where the ex-boyfriend had posted something about a sexual harassment investigation involving Naqvi and a professor. Naqvi came to meet him along with another person and got the post deleted from his computer by showing him a knife.

Naqvi was later acquitted of intimidation as the court found many inconsistencies in what Naqvi said. This brings to light yet another case involving Naqvi, who has accused former University of Illinois professor Joseph Petrie of sexual harassment. Petrie claimed that his accuser had blackmailed him and he resigned.

Detained by ICE or not

Naqvi’s sister claimed that she was detained at O’Hare International Airport as she was returning from a trip along with five others. He was then transferred to an immigration facility in Broadview, Illinois, and then to the Dodge County Jail in Wisconsin. The family claimed this all happened between Thursday and Saturday and he was released from the Dodge County Jail on Saturday morning. She said her phone location showed up at an ICE facility, although federal authorities told family members she was not in custody. Cook County Commissioner Kevin Morrison defended the family’s side of the story and said authorities were lying because no due process was followed in detaining the American citizen. Dodge County Sheriff Dale Schmidt said that Naqvi’s family was lying because there was no record of Naqvi being taken into custody. Reed Showalter, a Democratic candidate for Congress from Illinois, said the administration was lying because he was with Naqvi’s family when he went missing. “I was on the ground for this entire thing. The scary thing is not just that this administration is disappearing people. But the entire time they were held in custody, the official story was that they had already been released. While Sunny was in Broadview IL, and her phone showed her location there, ICE claimed they never even saw any of the women. When he was released across the street from another ICE detention center in Juneau WI, they were claiming he was never detained. People don’t just show up to the ICE facility in Juneau WI, Showalter wrote.