An 86-year-old French woman who moved to the US last year after rekindling a 1960s romance is being detained at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) centre in the state of Louisiana.
The son of Marie-Thérèse, from the city of Nantes, sounded the alarm after his mother was arrested in Anniston, Alabama, earlier in April.
“They handcuffed her hands and feet like she was a dangerous criminal,” he told French outlet Ouest-France.
My parents live in the US, I’m in Canada. they’re dual Canadian-US Citizens but were both born in England and still have British accents, I’m a dual British-Canadian citizen. They moved a lot due to my dad’s work and eventually decided, for whatever reason, to settle in the US. They’re elderly and I’m afraid to travel there and I don’t want them travelling here to potentially/likely be hassled on their return. This sucks. I’m terrified that I’ll never see them in person again. I’m terrified that they’ll be grocery shopping one day and because of their accents they’ll get reported or come across some nazi ice agent and get detained.
So even though I’m Canadian I feel invested in all this crap in the US purely because of my parents. I wish, daily, deep down wish daily that the US People FINALLY do something to take their country back. I wish I could ask some random American to please look out for my parents and keep them safe. It haunts me. It’s almost like I’m waiting for some call from someone saying my parents are in some holding facility. But from all the stories I’ve read I’d likely never get that call so now I’m just calling my mom daily only to make sure she can still pick up the phone.
can’t wait for the hallmark movie.
- “An icy reunion”.
- “Welcome to camp love”.
- “Restrained passion”.
The story is actually much more elaborate than the headline. Pretty crazy. I recommend reading the article.
She married this guy she had known in the 60s and moved to Alabama. She had applied for a green card and long term stay visa, but then he died suddenly. She tried to get his inheritance, but the man’s son claimed it for himself. Not sure who is right there, but it sounds like that may have factored in to things. No proof, but maybe he reported her to ICE.
I can see where a family might not be too pleased about some “long lost love” who shows up at the end to get married and try to claim the entire estate from his family.
That was the Anna Nicole Smith story. The family of her dead ancient husband were truly awful people, but I don’t blame them for being upset at this obvious golddigger showing up at the end and trying to take EVERYTHING from their family.
Pro tip: don’t travel to third world dictatorships like Alabama.
or the USA in general
If the French embassy does not manage to resolve this, given her age, sadly I think ICE will detain her to death.
Whoever snitched (it’s obvious from the article) should experience big setbacks in life.
If you have friends in the US you better reunite with them in free countries, not in fascist hell-holes.
I’m meeting my US friend in Amsterdam or somewhere in France this summer. I’m really glad because I still find it difficult to tell her that I have no interest in traveling to the US… even though Oregon must be beautiful.
I still find it difficult to tell her that I have no interest in traveling to the US
Tell her. If she’s insisting that you visit this hellhole, then she needs to know that you feel unsafe. I live in Texas, and my family keeps talking about coming to visit me. I have to tell them that it’s a bad idea, and I explain, “don’t mistake my survival for your safety.” The fact that I haven’t been blasted in the face by ICE yet is not proof that Texas is alright; it’s just proof that I haven’t been blasted in the face by ICE. Yet.
Oregon might be beautiful, the trail there is rife with peril.
I’d like a Oregon trail with an ICE update.
People in ICE detention might actually die from dysentery again the way Trump goons are treating them.
“The worst of the worst”, “dangerous criminals” - Donald Trump
Like every other time he opens his disgusting mouth, every accusation is a confession.
He is the worst of the worst and a dangerous criminal.
Gee, you know what I think dad would have wanted? His widow to be murdered (let’s be realistic here, she’s 86 and they don’t have clean water) in a concentration camp.
Look,this is shit. But i cannot just go and move somewhere on a whim,just because i got old? They’re not married so she is quite literally illegal if she overstayed her visa.
Same as UK person moving to Spain right now.
The way she was handled is obviously the problem.
In the United States, overstaying your visa is not a crime, it’s a civil infraction. The term “illegal” in the sense that conservatives use it here, is literally erroneous, and so is the way that you’re using it.
They literally were married, and unfortunately he died just in January, but her green card had not yet been issued so she didn’t know what her actual immigration status is.
Read the article.
The only good nazi is a dead nazi.
