Jemmy Jimenez Rosa with her husband Marcel Rosa.
On August 11, 2025, Jemmy, a lawful permanent resident, mother of four and community member of 30+ years, arrived at Boston Logan Airport after a family vacation.
She never made it home.
Customs and Border Protection officers detained her without explanation. They held her for 10 days without charges, without access to her family and without the medical care she needed for serious health conditions. She collapsed twice and was hospitalized twice, from neglect, not illness.
Marcel Rosa and Todd Pomerleau appear on PBS News Hour, Aug. 28, 2025.
Her “crime”? A minor marijuana charge from her twenties, long decriminalized in Massachusetts.
Jemmy's story exposed something bigger, a system that disregards rights, ignores medical conditions, and hides behind silence.
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