Donna Hughes-Brown, an Irish green card holder who has lived in the US since the 1970s, has been detained by ICE since returning from a trip to Ireland on July 29th. Donna moved to the US with her family when she was only 11, and has been a legal resident since 1977. However, she never applied for US citizenship, as she felt that would require giving up a part of herself.
Hughes-Brown’s husband of 8 years, Jim Brown, had the following to say about her detainment: “You don’t arrest 58-year-old grandmothers. It’s just wrong. She hasn’t committed crimes. You just don’t do that.”
Brown, a U.S. Navy veteran of 20 years’ service, has admitted to Newsweek that he voted for Donald Trump in last year’s presidential election but has quickly come to regret it “100 percent”.Donna was detained over a bad check she wrote in 2015 for $25. She has since paid back the money, but has this misdemeanor on her record. For the Trump administration, that’s enough for her to be detained and possibly deported. We shall see in the coming days what happens to her over this, but I suspect she’ll be sent back home and not allowed into the US in the near future.
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