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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Rory Carroll Ireland correspondent

Irish woman with green card faces US deportation over $25 bad cheque

Donna Hughes-Brown with her husband, Jim Brown
Donna Hughes-Brown with her husband, Jim Brown, who told reporters he ‘100%’ regretted voting for Trump. Photograph: GoFundMe

An Irish grandmother who has lived in the US for most of her life and holds a green card is facing deportation because she wrote a bad cheque for $25 in 2015.

Donna Hughes-Brown, 58, was detained in July after landing in Chicago on a flight from Dublin and is being held in isolation in a detention centre in Kentucky. She has lived in the US since 1977, has five children and grandchildren, and ran a horse farm in Troy, Missouri.

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