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.

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    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.

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

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      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.

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        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.

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

        We are poorly viewed by intelligent beings here too.

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      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.