‘The guards could not speak without yelling’: life as an 85-year-old ICE detainee

US authorities arrested French citizen Marie-Thérèse Ross-Mahé after she missed an immigration appointment

The wailing at the Louisiana immigration detention facility began at night, Marie-Thérèse Ross-Mahé remembered, back at home in France. “Children crying, and even babies.”

The 85-year-old’s detention last month as part of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown made international headlines. Now, nearly a month after her release, she was ready to talk about it – and the late-in-life love story that had brought her to the US.

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11 thoughts on “‘The guards could not speak without yelling’: life as an 85-year-old ICE detainee

  1. The detail about the wailing at the Louisiana immigration detention facility began at night, Marie-Thérèse Ross-Mahé remembered, back at home in France is something people should sit with.

  2. What stands out is the wailing at the Louisiana immigration detention facility began at night, Marie-Thérèse Ross-Mahé remembered, back at home in France. That is the part worth paying attention to.

  3. So the bottom line is the 85-year-old’s detention last month as part of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown made international headlines. Wonder how this will land.

  4. The detail about uS authorities arrested French citizen Marie-Thérèse Ross-Mahé after she missed an immigration is something people should sit with.

  5. Basically uS authorities arrested French citizen Marie-Thérèse Ross-Mahé after she missed an immigration. What matters is whether anything changes because of it.

  6. If the wailing at the Louisiana immigration detention facility began at night, Marie-Thérèse Ross-Mahé remembered, back at home in France, then the bigger picture starts to look very different.

  7. The bigger issue here is uS authorities arrested French citizen Marie-Thérèse Ross-Mahé after she missed an immigration. That changes the calculation.

  8. US authorities arrested French citizen Marie-Thérèse Ross-Mahé after she missed an immigration. Meanwhile the wailing at the Louisiana immigration detention facility began at night, Marie-Thérèse Ross-Mahé remembered, back at home in France.

  9. The fact that the 85-year-old’s detention last month as part of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown made international headlines really puts things into perspective.

  10. In other words the wailing at the Louisiana immigration detention facility began at night, Marie-Thérèse Ross-Mahé remembered, back at home in France. Curious to see how this develops.

  11. Considering the wailing at the Louisiana immigration detention facility began at night, Marie-Thérèse Ross-Mahé remembered, back at home in France, it raises some real questions about what happens next.

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