Overview

• Ward Sakeik said she was shackled in a gray tracksuit, handcuffed for 16 hours without food or water, and denied phone calls during transfers among detention facilities.
• Legal filings state ICE officers twice escorted her to airport tarmacs and attempted to expel her to the Israeli border despite knowing she holds no citizenship and a federal injunction barred her removal.
• Her marriage-based green card application, filed in January, remains pending after she cleared the initial review stage just before her February detention.
• The Department of Homeland Security has rejected her account of substandard conditions, asserting that all detainees receive adequate meals, medical care, and communication access.
• Advocates contend her case underscores President Trump’s intensified deportation policies and a sharp rise in deaths in ICE custody.