Overview

• Sarah Shaw and her son have been held at the Dilley processing center in South Texas for about three weeks after a border reentry on July 24 due to a “combo card” paperwork discrepancy.
• Shaw’s lawyer attributes the detention to an administrative error and says ICE could have exercised discretion to grant humanitarian parole instead of detaining her.
• New Zealand’s foreign affairs ministry confirms consular staff have contacted Shaw, and her family reports she has been absent from ICE’s public detainee-locator database for weeks.
• Advocates describe restrictive conditions at Dilley, including confiscated phones, enforced curfews, and isolation from legal support and English speakers.
• Her father, Rod Price, says there is a 90 percent chance she and her son will be released by Friday.