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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(137,512 posts)
Sat Aug 16, 2025, 08:33 PM Aug 2025

A New Zealand mother and her 6-year-old son released from US immigration custody after being detained for weeks

Source: CNN

hoto to protect the identity of minors. - Courtesy Victoria Besancon
A Washington state mother and her 6-year-old son have been released after spending more than three weeks in US immigration detention due to a brief trip to Canada and a small paperwork mistake, her attorney told CNN on Saturday.

Sarah Shaw, a New Zealand citizen who has lived legally in the US since she arrived in 2021, was detained at the Blaine, Washington, Customs and Border Protection checkpoint when returning home after dropping her two oldest children off at the Vancouver airport for a flight to visit their grandparents in New Zealand.

Shaw, 33, chose the flight out of Vancouver because it was direct and she didn’t want her children to have to navigate a layover alone, her attorney Minda Thorward, told CNN.

But Shaw didn’t realize the travel permit that allowed her to exit and re-enter the US had expired. That’s when Shaw and her son, whose immigration documents were valid, were taken into custody by CBP.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/zealand-mother-her-6-old-141157576.html

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A New Zealand mother and her 6-year-old son released from US immigration custody after being detained for weeks (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2025 OP
I wonder if they get her home KT2000 Aug 2025 #1
Border Patrol keeping us safe from dangerous Kiwis IronLionZion Aug 2025 #2

KT2000

(22,223 posts)
1. I wonder if they get her home
Sun Aug 17, 2025, 12:36 AM
Aug 2025

or if she is left to her own devices to get back to Washington. I can guess what the answer is.

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