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An 86-year-old French woman who moved to the US last year after rekindling a 1960s romance is being detained at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) centre in the state of Louisiana.

The son of Marie-Thérèse, from the city of Nantes, sounded the alarm after his mother was arrested in Anniston, Alabama, earlier in April.

"They handcuffed her hands and feet like she was a dangerous criminal," he told French outlet Ouest-France.

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[–] rozodru@piefed.world 20 points 1 day ago

My parents live in the US, I'm in Canada. they're dual Canadian-US Citizens but were both born in England and still have British accents, I'm a dual British-Canadian citizen. They moved a lot due to my dad's work and eventually decided, for whatever reason, to settle in the US. They're elderly and I'm afraid to travel there and I don't want them travelling here to potentially/likely be hassled on their return. This sucks. I'm terrified that I'll never see them in person again. I'm terrified that they'll be grocery shopping one day and because of their accents they'll get reported or come across some nazi ice agent and get detained.

So even though I'm Canadian I feel invested in all this crap in the US purely because of my parents. I wish, daily, deep down wish daily that the US People FINALLY do something to take their country back. I wish I could ask some random American to please look out for my parents and keep them safe. It haunts me. It's almost like I'm waiting for some call from someone saying my parents are in some holding facility. But from all the stories I've read I'd likely never get that call so now I'm just calling my mom daily only to make sure she can still pick up the phone.