Marie-Thérèse Ross, the 86-year-old French woman arrested on April 1 by agents of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at her home in Anniston, Alabama, and held since then in a detention center, is now in France, according to confirmation this Friday by the French Foreign Minister, Jean-Noel Barrot.
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“It is very satisfying news,” the minister said during a visit to Montpellier. Marie-Thérèse Ross moved to the US a year ago to marry a former colonel and American pilot, an old youthful love she had met decades earlier, in the late 1950s, in France.
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The man died three months ago. At that time, Marie-Thérèse Ross did not yet have the green card, the permanent residence card, so ICE agents considered her to be in the country irregularly. She had been in a detention center in Louisiana for several days, along with 70 other detainees, according to her family’s complaint.