Guatemalan woman held by immigration agents in Detroit after wrong turn [Video]

DETROIT — A woman from Guatemala says she and her two U.S.-born children were held for nearly a week by customs agents in Detroit after a phone app’s directions to the nearest Costco led them to an international bridge connecting the city to Canada.

She now faces removal proceedings in June in immigration court, according to Ruby Robinson, senior managing attorney with the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center.

On Thursday, Robinson, U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, and the ACLU of Michigan called for more accountability and transparency by U.S. Customs and Border Protection on detentions along the nation’s northern border with Canada.

“Our neighbors and families should not be disappearing because they made a wrong turn,” Tlaib said.

Though the northern border …