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.

  • Fedizen@lemmy.world
    48·
    4 hours 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
      20·
      3 hours ago

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

    • CalipherJones@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      3 hours 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.

    • peteyestee@feddit.orgEnglish
      9·
      4 hours 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.