India, March 25 -- A Canadian woman and her young daughter are being held at a Texas immigration facility after being stopped at a US checkpoint. According to Newsweek, Tania Warner and her 7-year-old daughter Ayla were detained after the family was stopped by federal agents in Sarita, Texas, on March 14 while traveling with her husband, a US citizen.

Warner's husband, Edward, told Canadian media that agents took his wife in for fingerprinting after they presented identification. Shortly after, his stepdaughter was also taken in, and neither returned. The two were later placed in custody by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

They were initially held at a Rio Grande facility before being transferred to the Dilley Detention Center, w...