Agents detained Marie-Therese Ross in Alabama on 1 April after she overstayed her 90-day visa, according to DHS
The French government is pressing the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to release the 86-year-old French widow of a military veteran from immigration custody after she was detained earlier this month.
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents detained Marie-Therese Ross in Alabama on 1 April after she overstayed her 90-day visa, according to DHS. Ross is now being held at a federal immigration detention facility in Louisiana.
She is among the thousands of people targeted by the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda that has resulted in the spouses of US soldiers and military veterans detained, who previously received greater leniency under policies since scrapped by Donald Trump in his second term in office.
She was overheard saying something about the “blue white and red” as you know this is the wrong order for the glorious colors of the stars and stripes. Therefore this was subversive speech.
She will be well fed, wonderbread with a slice of American. French people love bread and cheese and this almost resembles those things, so she’ll be fine.