TROY, Mo. ( KMOV /Gray News) - Loved ones in Missouri say a grandmother will be spending Thanksgiving behind bars after being detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Donna Hughes Brown, an Irish citizen and legal resident alien, is being held in a Kentucky detention facility while federal officials reportedly seek to deport her over misdemeanor bad check charges from more than a decade ago.

Her immigration case has also been delayed, this time until Dec. 18.

Officials said that her past bad check charges constitute crimes of moral turpitude and warrant deportation.

However, her husband, Jim Brown, said their arguments are all wrong.

“Please show me in the Bible where this is what you are supposed to do. It’s wrong. Period,” he said. “Because she’s 100% innocent. Includ

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