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.

  • tburkhol@lemmy.world
    13·
    7 hours 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.

    • BigFig@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      3 hours ago

      You have to remember that to THESE people, being undocumented in any way shape or firm IS illegal. Whether or not that makes you a criminal is entirely different and they definitely say yes.

    • Seleni@lemmy.world
      9·
      7 hours ago

      These are the same morons that think Bezos isn’t rich enough to give all his workers raises; that ‘he would lose all his money!’

      Math is not their strong suit.

    • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
      3·
      6 hours ago

      i know that. you know that. but not enough people do. they don’t understand scale or large numbers. they think if we increase minimum wage by $7, the price of a big mac will go up $7.

      our education system is designed to make people susceptible to exploitation.

      everything is going according to plan