ICE arrests 85-year-old French widow who married her G.I. sweetheart
A judge believes a stepson was behind the arrest.
From The Times
April 17, 2026

Last year, Marie-Thérèse Ross-Mahé moved to the United States for love, marrying a man she had met decades earlier on a U.S. military base. Her husband died in January, and now, Ross-Mahé, 85, is being held in a detention center, a month after immigration agents arrested her at her late husband’s home.

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A judge believes a stepson was behind the arrest. →

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