$1M Defamation Lawsuit for Accused liar who claimed she was detained by ICE for two days

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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.

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Morrison, who called the Chicago-area native his “best friend’s sister,” shared questionable screenshots of Naqvi’s location at the Juneau, Wis., 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.

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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.

“Ms. Naqvi departed CBP within 90 minutes of her arrival to the United States … [she] was not taken into custody or transferred to ICE for detention,” DHS wrote in a March 10 X statement.

The Dodge County Sheriff’s Office also said it had no record of Naqvi ever “being booked, detained, or released” at the local jail.

But Morrison, who is running for a seat in Congress, doubled down — even accusing the officials of “lying” and “trying to create a cover-up,” according to the Wisconsin outlet WISN 12 News.

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