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Rhiannon12866

(258,151 posts)
Sat May 9, 2026, 03:45 AM 4 hrs ago

France FORCED to INTERVENE with Trump's ICE - Legal AF



Attorneys Brian Kabateck and Shant Karnikian cover the story of Marie-Therese Ross-Mahé, an 86-year-old French citizen who married her long-lost sweetheart, Army Captain Bill Ross, after both were widowed — only to be detained by ICE in her nightgown and deported after he died. The couple met when Ross was stationed in France in the 1960s, reconnected decades later, and married in Alabama in 2025.

When Captain Ross died suddenly in January, his sons — one a retired state trooper who works at the federal courthouse — launched a probate fight over his $173,000 estate and began stripping Marie-Therese of resources. Probate Judge Shirley Millwood, a Republican appointee, found that the younger son used his law enforcement connections to tip off ICE. Court documents show he was notified the day before the arrest and contacted again an hour after.

Marie-Therese was detained for 16 days in facilities in Alabama and Louisiana, and ultimately deported to Paris still wearing a stained orange prison jumpsuit. The French foreign minister had to personally intervene to secure her release. Brian and Shant note that ICE had full discretion here — a pending widow petition doesn't require deportation — but they chose to deploy resources against an 86-year-old woman with medical issues because someone with connections asked them to. This is the Trump immigration agenda in practice. - 05/08/2026.

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France FORCED to INTERVENE with Trump's ICE - Legal AF (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 4 hrs ago OP
I bet the Alabama sons really enjoyed seeing Ilsa 2 hrs ago #1
Yup, the cruelty is the point. Rhiannon12866 2 hrs ago #2
Trump has broken the United States and brought us low. Joinfortmill 1 hr ago #3

Ilsa

(64,520 posts)
1. I bet the Alabama sons really enjoyed seeing
Sat May 9, 2026, 05:27 AM
2 hrs ago

their aged stepmother treated this way. I can't see them as anything but maga. The more cruel, the better, in their eyes.

Joinfortmill

(21,573 posts)
3. Trump has broken the United States and brought us low.
Sat May 9, 2026, 06:48 AM
1 hr ago

So low, we will be compared to other brutal fascist regimes and bear the stain of this forever. Because, believe me, we don't know the half of what they are doing.

We should be in the streets every damn day. We should have a week long moratorium on Amazon. We should boycott MSM media permanently. We should have a No One Works Today strike. And maybe we should do it all on the same day - A FUCK YOU DAY.

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