The Trump Terrorist Regime in One Case

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Marcel Rosa watched helplessly as federal agents led his wife, Jemmy Jimenez Rosa, away at Boston Logan International Airport on Aug. 11. Their three young daughters clung to him in tears, fear and confusion.

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 — an offense that was pardoned by Gov. Maura Healey in 2024 and is no longer a crime in Massachusetts.

“I was just like, ‘Girls, we might never see your mother again in this country,’” Marcel Rosa, 38, said on Friday.

“I looked over to the officer and said, ‘Am I telling the truth?’ And he said, ‘Yeah, that could be possible.’ I told my kids right in front of the officer that she’s being arrested, and the girls just started crying, hugging her,” he said.

“I know most parents would not have told that to their kids, but there was no way I was going to allow those officers to think they’re just going to rip my wife away from my family, thinking it’s going to be ‘business as usual.’”

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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.

“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.

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“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.

These people are scum. ICE employees should be the ones thrown in prison and Donald Trump should be tried for crimes against humanity.