A Washington state employee and her young son have been released after three weeks in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, according to her lawyer, Minda Thorward.

New Zealander Sarah Shaw and her son were detained by ICE at the Canadian border last month after she dropped off her two eldest children at Vancouver International Airport.

Shaw, an employee at the state Department of Children, Youth, and Families, works at Echo Glen Children’s Center, a medium/maximum security juvenile rehabilitation facility in Snoqualmie.

Thorward said Shaw holds a “combo card,” a temporary immigration document that authorized her to work in the U.S. The combo card can also function as a travel document, but Shaw didn’t realize that part of the card was no longer valid, Thorward said. Only the wor

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