Französische Witwe, 86, fliegt nach ICE-Haftquälerei nach Hause

Using ICE as their private Gestapo

>She had married an Alabama resident, William Ross, in April last year. The former captain in the US army died in January, setting off an inheritance battle between his children and his widow. [According to a New York Times report,](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/us/ice-detention-alabama-french-woman.html) a probate judge wrote in a ruling last week that she believed that one of his children had used his position as a government employee to have Ross arrested

I’ve not looked into this particular story in detail so won’t comment but it’s worth practising media literacy and looking for facts before coming to any conclusions.

This other story was massive a week ago (Irish lad Seamus Culleton “wrongfully detained by ICE”) which was all over the Irish news and a lot of European/worldwide online spaces: https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/s/1VnUMO2nJ3

This lad was initially portrayed as an innocent victim of US immigration but subsequent investigations in Ireland have shown that he had drugs charges he fled from, abandoned 2 infant daughters without paying child support for decades, lied on his US visa/GC applications and illegally overstayed his 90 day visa exemption in the US by almost 20 years: https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/s/LHXuPYMOt3

The original story got 10k upvotes and 1k comments on just 1 of many posts (so was very widely seen and shared) and was seen by people around the world. The follow-up reporting which has disproved almost every aspect of the initial story was only really news in Ireland. I’ve tried to post updates to a few non-Irish subs that reported the initial story but none of the posts were accepted