{"id":1043,"date":"2026-05-13T14:40:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T14:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=1043"},"modified":"2026-05-13T14:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T14:40:13","slug":"the-guards-could-not-speak-without-yelling-life-as-an-85-year-old-ice-detainee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=1043","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The guards could not speak without yelling\u2019: life as an 85-year-old ICE detainee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US authorities arrested French citizen Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se Ross-Mah\u00e9 after she missed an immigration appointment<\/p>\n<p>The wailing at the Louisiana immigration detention facility began at night, Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se Ross-Mah\u00e9 remembered, back at home in France. \u201cChildren crying, and even babies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/14\/marie-therese-billy-ice-arrest-us-france\">The 85-year-old\u2019s detention last month<\/a> as part of the Trump administration\u2019s immigration crackdown made international headlines. Now, nearly a month after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/17\/french-widow-86-flies-home-after-ice-detention-centre-ordeal\">her release<\/a>, she was ready to talk about it \u2013 and the late-in-life love story that had brought her to the US.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/13\/marie-therese-ross-85-year-old-ice-detainee\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US authorities arrested French citizen Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se Ross-Mah\u00e9 after she missed an immigration appointment The wailing at the Louisiana immigration detention facility began at night, Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se Ross-Mah\u00e9 remembered, back at home &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=1043\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}