Massachusetts mom detained and tortured by ICE for 10 days because of a decades-old sealed marijuana charge

https://www.masslive.com/news/2025/08/mass-mom-detained-by-ice-for-10-days-over-decades-old-minor-marijuana-charge.html

23 comments

  1. Just wait till the ICE Gestapo start detaining you for jaywalking…

  2. ICE is staffed by thugs, society’s misfits and sadists looking to flaunt their power. They have become a truly evil organization which has almost unlimited power and has the President’s blessing.

  3. >What should have been the end of a joyful vacation to Mexico for the Canton family, with over 30 relatives, had turned into a nightmare. Jimenez Rosa, a legal permanent resident and mother of four U.S. citizens, was detained over what her lawyer believes was a decades-old, personal-use marijuana charge, which is no longer a crime in Massachusetts today.
    …
    But when they handed their passports and Jimenez Rosa’s Green Card with her permanent resident status, which wasn’t set to expire until 2035, the agent told her to go to a room downstairs at the airport for additional questions.

    >This is when federal agents made a vague reference to her arrest on marijuana possession charges from when she was in college, 22 years ago, Pomerleau and Marcel Rosa said — but never stated the specific charges.
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    Her records were sealed over a decade ago, Pomerleau added, and he noted that based on police reports, there was never any amount of marijuana listed — blaming Jimenez Rosa’s defense attorney for allowing her to plead guilty 22 years ago to “something that apparently wasn’t even a provable crime.”

    >“Her records were sealed for 12 years. They [federal officers] would have had no access to these records unless somebody illegally handed them over … They never once asked for records from me about the case, and I had to guess that it might have been a marijuana charge because I was left in the dark for a week,” Pomerleau said.
    …
    “If it can happen to a non-citizen, Green Card holder who’s been following nearly every rule her whole life, paying taxes, it can happen to you. It can happen to anybody, and we are taking a stand,” Pomerleau said.

    She was LEGAL, you motherfuckers!

    >Federal authorities never directly said why Jimenez Rosa was detained. An email to her lawyer from ICE hinted at the reason shortly before her release on Aug. 20.

    >During the 10 days after Jimenez Rosa was detained, the family would be thrust into a bureaucratic maze as the 42-year-old mother was shuttled between detention facilities — including one for men only — from Massachusetts to Maine. She was denied proper health care for her diabetes, asthma and other serious health issues, which led to two hospitalizations, her lawyer said.

    >All the while, her husband — a former Department of Homeland Security employee who grew up in Boston — struggled to locate her and secure her release through court intervention.

    This is pure vicious cruelty. That’s all ICE is.

     

    Justice for Jemmy Jimenez Rosa! Justice for all the victims of ICE like her!

    >“Jemmy’s detention was brutal and capricious and never should have happened,” said state Sen. Paul Feeney, D-Bristol/Norfolk, who was on hand in Burlington when Jimenez Rosa was reunited with her family Wednesday.

    >“[She was] needlessly, unjustly and cruelly taken from her family and deprived of basic rights in the most un-American way possible,” he said.

    >Jimenez Rosa’s time in custody ended with her alone, wet and begging for help at The Cheesecake Factory in the Burlington Mall, after ICE agents released her into the rainy street outside the detention facility Wednesday night. She was 30 miles from home, with no phone and a broken spirit.

    >The family fears that their nightmare will never truly end.

    >“I know she’s not, I know she’s not okay … I don’t think she’ll ever be the same, to be honest. I really don’t,” Marcel Rosa said.

  4. Are they enjoying this — like blacks enjoyed slavery? What has gone wrong with this country?

  5. It’s going to continue and it’s going to get worse, much worse, until the American people make a stand and send the message that they won’t take it any more.

  6. Once they get caught up they will start going house to house.

  8. Scary to think where the US will be in a year or even 4 now.

  10. When is enough enough? When does it become too much? I had felt it was enough months ago.

  11. What’s even more wretched is when Mango is finally being flayed in Hell for eternity and order is restored, there will be ex-ICE walking amongst us (most likely) with impunity and we just have to see them in the grocery store or wherever and just know what they did and not be able to do anything about it.

  12. The fastest way to decrease crime rate in USA would be to put the whole Trump administration and all ICE agents in prison, change my mind.

  13. Well there is your next movie Hollywood executives. It’s so cruel that it people will doubt it really happened, which makes it a perfect movie to be based on real events. It’s got it all. Tragedy, drama, rootable protagonists and deplorable antagonists.

    Of course it will not be made and even if it somehow was it would never be released in the states. It’s such a shame because a big movie with a plot like this is just what the moviegoers of the whole world needs right now to make them take notice.

  14. This was all so avoidable – was Harris perfect? No. Also she wasn’t a lying, grifting, cheating, raping, treasonous, narcissistic , psychopathic felon.

  15. I need to know how they voted before I can be sympathetic.

  16. Good for that lawyer speaking up about all the ways this wasn’t normal or legal, and in fact unnecessarily cruel and evil. We need to support the good lawyers because they’ll be a target in the fascist regime as well.

  17. that’s not why they tortured her. they just did that because they wanted to, and because they’re racist.

  18. The way they released her onto some random street in the rain with no phone. That’s the exact shit you’d see from criminals in a fucking kidnapping movie. America as we know it is really gone isn’t it.

  20. I wish they would have included sources to show people.

  23. This story needs more attention. I haven’t heard about this at all

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