Rod Price recounts ‘frantic’ call he received from Sarah Shaw after her detention at US border while returning from Canada
The father of a New Zealand woman who has been held in a US immigration detention centre for three weeks with her six-year-old son is hopeful the pair will be released by the end of the week.
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detained Sarah Shaw and her youngest son after they attempted to re-enter the US from Canada on 24 July.
Shaw had just dropped her two eldest children at Vancouver airport, so they could take a direct flight back to New Zealand for a holiday with their grandparents, when her father, Rod Price, received a panicked phone call.
“She went to go back across into the US and then I got a frantic call to say that she’s being detained and ‘they’re about to take my phone off me’ and ‘they’re locking me up for the night’,” Price told local broadcaster RNZ.
