ICE's deportation actions signal that anyone who isn't a US citizen is 'at risk – period,' immigration attorney says.

Summary

Wisconsin resident Bradley Bartell voted for Trump’s promise to crack down on “criminal illegal immigrants,” but now his Peruvian wife Camila Muñoz has been detained by ICE.

Muñoz, from Peru, overstayed her visa but had applied for legal residency. On their way home from a honeymoon, immigration agents detained her at a Puerto Rico airport.

Despite no criminal record, she remains in a Louisiana detention center. Her case reflects ICE’s broadened enforcement that now includes documented immigrants.

Bartell, once supportive of stricter immigration policies, now questions the impact on families like his own.

  • Nougat@fedia.io
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    3 months ago

    Muñoz, from Peru, overstayed her visa … Bartell, once supportive of stricter immigration policies, …

    “Supportive of stricter immigration policies,” doesn’t turn in his wife for violating existing immigration policies.

    • MiniMoose4Free@lemm.eeEnglish
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      3 months ago

      An american woman wouldn’t put up with his shit. My brother is unfortunately a trumper, and he got a foreign wife because she is the only woman that will put up with his shit that a normal woman would have walked out of years ago.

      She slaves over him like a tradwife, raises his kids that isn’t hers from the previous woman that walked away from his shit. But he’s got joint custody.

        • Broadfern@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          3 months ago

          Yeah this isn’t great. While we can’t say for sure, “woman in a safer position” may well describe this situation as it’s an unfortunate pattern.

    • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      3 months ago

      the way the media talks about immigration and trumps policies are very specific and very corrosive. most of us here having this conversation understand what’s really at stake because we think about and analyze these things, but american media intentionally lets people who don’t know think they know what they don’t.

      let me explain.

      when donald trump talks about criminal aliens in our country, he means anyone born on foreign soil, born to foreign parents, or with citizenship somewhere else who has committed a crime. a crime to him is any breach of law. and he uses the terms “illegals” and “aliens” to distance people from their own humanity. but the media will cover it as he’s only interested in criminals. you know, like drug kingpins, traffickers, gun runners. our mass media misleads the populace. the reason they do this is doing so does numbers for them. when you have a for profit media apparatus, you will make more money if there is always an emergency. this way they can trick people like this guy into making their own emergency, and then they can package his tragedy and sell it to us.

      everything is going according to plan

      • tburkhol@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        You can’t promise to round up and deport 10 million “criminal, illegal immigrants” without implying that all of the ~10 million undocumented residents are criminal. Unless you’ve been listening to Ann Coulter and believe there are 50 million undocumented - 1 in every 6 people in the country.

    • Aphelion@lemm.ee
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      3 months ago

      “No, no, she’s on of the good ones, not one of criminals, and she’s with me.”

  • gnomesaiyan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I honestly believe these idiots that voted for Trump somehow thought that they would be immune to his policies. He doesn’t give a fuck about you.

    • Seleni@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      I know it’s been getting a lot of mileage on Lemmy lately, but:

      Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

      • Wilholt’s Law

      He figured he was in the first group, and since conservatives tend to think women are property, he figured her being with him put her in that group too. Whoops.

      • newtraditionalists@kbin.melroy.org
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        3 months ago

        This is a really good read on these types of situations. He’s a white guy and he thought that was enough. that means the rules don’t apply to him. I think as we are trying to figure these people out we sometimes overcomplicate it and a lot of the times the reasons are really quite simple. Just like them.

        • segabased@lemmy.zip
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          3 months ago

          In general we give people who act stupid way too much credit, they’re actually just fucking stupid.

          Conversely, we’re way too comfortable letting politicians play stupid instead of calling them out for their malicious intentions. And if the politician truly is stupid (Trump) there are handlers behind them pulling the strings

        • Seleni@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          All conservatives want this law to be reality, and they all want to be in the first group. When you look at it in that light, all their supposedly contradictory actions make sense.

          It seems like most of the time the realization they come to is less ‘oh wow maybe this is bad actually’ and more ‘hey, you put me in the wrong group!’

    • Lucky_777@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      They thought by bending the knee to Trump, they would be exempt from his bullshit. You’re 100% right here. He doesn’t give a fuck about Americans, their families or the down troddened.

      Trump only cares about Trump.

      • Halosheep@lemm.ee
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        3 months ago

        Friend you’re on the wrong instance. .ml has a spot open for you, all you have to do is cry about “the libs” like a Trumper and you’re in.

  • Tezzerets_Tea_Time@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Good. I hope he’s fucking devastated. I hope his entire world is fucking crumbling. Everyone with three working braincells or more knew exactly what would happen if we let the christonationalist fascists have total control of the government, and pieces of subhuman trash like him willingly made it happen.

  • Fedizen@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I hate that as americans were so stupid we have to learn like this because we can’t hear people out before it gets to this point.

    • Frostbeard@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Like I believe one of your founding fathers Benjamin Franklin said: “Experience holds a dear school, but fools learn from no other”

    • peteyestee@feddit.orgEnglish
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      3 months ago

      People here don’t even think. I feel like most people in my life barely understand they exist. They are like walking products that work for the evil that created them.

    • CalipherJones@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I had a Scottish chick in Edinburgh tell me that I was the only American she enjoyed talking to. I didn’t realize just how poorly we were viewed overseas until I went myself.

      • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        The amazing thing about this is that Americans who travel are on average a lot more open-minded and intelligent than those who don’t. And we still make a terrible impression.

      • rayyy@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        I didn’t realize just how poorly we were viewed overseas

        We are poorly viewed by intelligent beings here too.

  • SinCave@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    These shithead said out loud what they would do - so he is mad because he voted for what trump said he would do. What a dipshit. Sorry, you don’t get s Oops this time.