PARIS — An 85-year-old French widow who moved to the US to start a new life with an American military veteran she first met more than half a century ago is back in France again after a harrowing 16 days spent in federal immigration custody.
“She returned to France this morning. This is a satisfaction for us,” French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot told reporters during a visit to the southern city of Montpellier on Friday. Barrot said US Immigration and Customs Enforcement methods are “not in line” with French standards and are “not acceptable to us.”
Marie-Thérèse Ross entered the US last June after marrying a retired US soldier who had been stationed in her home country in the 1960s, court records show. But after her husband died of natural causes in January, a
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