85-Year-Old French Woman Returns After ICE Detention
Authorities held Marie-Thérèse Ross after she overstayed a 90-day visa, and a judge later questioned whether her stepsons helped trigger the arrest.
- An 86-year-old French woman has returned to France after being detained in the U.S. for overstaying her visa, confirmed by French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot.
- Marie-Thérèse Ross was detained in Alabama for overstaying her 90-day visa.
- Barrot criticized some of ICE's methods as 'not in line' with French standards and 'not acceptable to us.'
- Her son reported that she was 'in a state of shock and was physically and spiritually exhausted' after the experience.
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A French senior was detained in deportation detention in the United States. She had entered with a tourist visa and was handcuffed in April.
Marie-Thérèse Ross-Mahé married a man in the USA in 2025 who she had met 60 years ago in France. In January he died. And then the immigration police arrested her.
French Widow, 85, Returns Home After Being Detained In US Amid Family Fight
The woman entered US to begin a new life with a retired US soldier she had met decades ago. But after her husband's death, Ross' stepson intervened to have her taken into immigration custody amid a dispute over estate
Paris, France.- The 85-year-old French woman who spent 16 days in a U.S. migrant detention centre returned to France on Friday. Jean-Noël Barrot, French Foreign Minister, announced the return of the woman, Marie-Thérèse Ross-Mahé, to the journalists on Friday morning, and stated that “there were acts of violence” in her case that worried the French government. “The main thing is that she has returned to France, and that we are fully satisfied,” …
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