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Cruel And Usual
April 16, 2026
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Marie-Thérèse is 86 years old. Handcuffed. Wrists and ankles. Sitting in an ICE detention facility in Louisiana with roughly 70 other detainees. She has heart problems. She has a bad back. Her children in France didn’t know where she was for a week. Here’s why: Sixty years ago she fell in love with an American soldier. They lost each other. They found each other again.
They got married. Billy was a retired U.S. Army colonel. Billy died in January. Marie-Thérèse had a green card application pending. Then there was an inheritance dispute with Billy’s son. Billy’s son reportedly called ICE. DHS called her “an illegal alien from France.” This is what we’re doing to the 86-year-old widow of an American veteran. The son sounds like a real POS too. What kind of people would do this? Wait, I guess I know, don’t I?
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