BLAINE, Wash. (AP) — Lawyers for a British family who made an unauthorized crossing from Canada into Whatcom County say the family has been deported after nearly two weeks in federal custody.
Bridget Cambria says Immigration and Customs Enforcement told her all seven members of the family, including an infant and toddler twins, are headed back to England.
The family says they mistakenly crossed the border into Whatcom County while trying to avoid an animal in the road on October 2nd, but Customs and Border Protection says their vehicle was spotted slowly crossing a ditch at the border and then continuing on Boundary Road north of Lynden.
Family members claim they were “treated like criminals” while in detention, which ICE denies.