Dossier
Detroit airport
Coverage of Detroit airport in the Nexus archive.
- A Noncitizen Says She Was Told She Could Vote. Then Customs Detained Her at the Airport and Threatened to Deport Her.
A 57-year-old permanent resident, Estelle, was detained at the Detroit airport for 30 hours after acknowledging she voted in a local election despite not being a US citizen. She was told she could vote by a state motor vehicles department employee and had no prior criminal history. The incident marks an escalation in the Trump administration's efforts to find and prosecute instances of noncitizen voting.