Wrong turn leads to hundreds of immigrant arrests at the Detroit-Canada border bridge

In the inquiry, CBP told Tlaib that 40 of the detainees were “known Tren de Aragua,” Venezuelan gang members. Of those detained there have been a dozen families – one family was held for 12 days, with two American citizen children. Lawyers with the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center say they do not currently know the whereabouts of the children, and have requested further information.

Sarahi had accidentally driven onto the Ambassador Bridge while en route to Costco, and she was arrested by immigration officials and taken to an office building nearby. According to Ruby Robinson of the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center, Sarahi was being held in a CBP office building next to the Ambassador Bridge, a building that is now being used for detention.

Last week the ACLU of Michigan and the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center placed a Freedom of Information Act request for further information about conditions and detainees who have been held near the bridge.

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