Overview
- Marie-Thérèse Ross-Mahé says ICE agents pulled her from bed in Alabama, shackled her, and flew her to a Louisiana facility where she feared she would die.
- She describes hours on hard benches and dirty beds, constant yelling from staff, and pain from back and sciatica that other inmates helped her manage.
- Homeland Security disputes her account and says detainees receive meals, clean water, blankets, medical care, and access to family and lawyers under audited standards.
- ICE removed her from the country for a visa overstay after her American husband died as she sought a green card through marriage.
- A local probate judge wrote that a stepson leveraged a federal job to get ICE to act during a fight over the estate, and urged a federal review of the arrest.