A brief trip to Canada and a small paperwork mistake landed a Washington state mother and her 6-year-old son in US immigration detention for more than three weeks, her attorney told CNN.

According to a rumor that circulated online in August 2025, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested and detained Sarah Shaw, a woman from New Zealand residing in Washington state, along with her young son,

According to her friend and supporter, a New Zealand lady is being wrongfully “treated like a criminal” at a US immigration center after she and her six-year-old son were arrested while crossing the Canada-US border.