- An 86-year-old French woman, Marie-Therese, who moved to the U.S. to rekindle a decades-old romance, has been detained by immigration officials.
- She is currently being held in a crowded detention center in Louisiana, raising urgent concerns from her family about her health.
- Her family is appealing for her return to France, stating that her health condition makes her unable to withstand the detention center's conditions for long.
- Marie-Therese relocated from Brittany to Anniston, Alabama, last year to marry Billy, a U.S. serviceman she had met and fallen in love with in the 1950s.
- Their initial romance was cut short in 1966 when Billy returned to the U.S. and France withdrew from NATO's integrated military command structure.
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