‘The guards could not speak without yelling’: life as an 85-year-old ICE detainee

US authorities arrested French citizen Marie-Thérèse Ross-Mahé after she missed an immigration appointment The wailing at the Louisiana immigration detention facility began at night, Marie-Thérèse Ross-Mahé remembered, back at home in France. “Children crying, and even babies.” The 85-year-old’s detention last month as part of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown made international headlines. Now, nearly a month after her release, she was ready to talk about it – and the late-in-l...

By Associated Press in Nantes