A grandmother living in Missouri is facing deportation because she wrote a bad check ten years ago for less than $30.

Donna Brown-Hughes, 58, has lived in the U.S. since she was 11 and has renewed her green card seven times.

However, when she and her husband arrived at Chicago O’Hare Airport after a trip to visit family in Ireland in July, a police officer was waiting for her on the tarmac.

According to her husband, Jim Brown, the police officer told him that Brown-Hughes needed to fill out some paperwork and would be released within hours.

However, she was detained the next morning and has been held at an ICE facility in Kentucky since early August.

Now, Hughes-Brown faces a deportation hearing on Sept. 17, which threatens to send her back to a country she hasn’t lived in since

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