LINCOLN COUNTY, Mo. ( KMOV /Gray News) – A grandmother in Missouri who has been in the United States for nearly 50 years is being held by ICE and faces deportation to Ireland.

Jim Brown said his wife Donna, and Irish citizen, came to the U.S. when she was just 11 years old.

She is a legal resident alien, or green card carrier, but not a U.S. citizen.

Brown said the two got married eight years ago – a marriage that he believes should also protect her from being deported.

“It’s just not fair that you’re telling me I have to be a bachelor the rest of my life because of some stupid policy,” Brown said.

All was well, Brown says, until July. After returning from Ireland for a family funeral, on the way back at customs in Chicago, Donna was arrested.

“You don’t arrest 58-year-old grandmot

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