Mass. mom detained by ICE for 10 days over decades-old minor marijuana charge

This has to be one of the craziest and saddest stories I have ever read!



Mass. mom detained by ICE for 10 days over decades-old minor marijuana charge
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Updated: Aug. 25, 2025, 10:35 a.m.


Jemmy Jimenez Rosa, 42, and her husband Marcel Rosa, 38. Jimenez Rosa was detained at Boston Logan by federal agents on Aug. 11 and held for 10 days.(Marcel Rosa)

By Irene Rotondo | IRotondo@masslive.com

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.

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Federal authorities never directly said why Jimenez Rosa was detained. An email to her lawyer from the U.S. Attorney’s Office hinted at the reason shortly before her release on Aug. 20............

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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. ...........................