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.

      • azuth
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        223 days ago

        Which country will be America’s trash can?

      • BigFig
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        223 days ago

        Not even treason can end in the revocation of your citizenship if naturally born (possible for a naturalized citizen)

    • BigFig
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      323 days ago

      US Citizens cannot legally be deported, and the 14th Amendment protects you from forced revocation of your citizenship. The only way you can become a Non Citizen again is denaturalization, or renunciation.

    • @Fredselfish@lemmy.world
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      1423 days ago

      Imagine being an immigrate and marrying a Trump supporter. Should we feel sorry for her? Because I feel no sympathy for him.

      • @hakunawazo@lemmy.world
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        Imagine being an immigrate and marrying a Trump supporter.

        Imagine being an immigrant and marrying a Trump. FIFY

        Not even blue steel could help you then.

        • @rocket_dragon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          322 days ago

          Which is a dumb belief.

          “Love conquers all” lol no, you don’t live in a fucking Disney movie.

          Certain political beliefs can and will do harm. Feelings will not protect you from harm. Choose your partner wisely.

  • @Polderviking@feddit.nl
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    Muñoz, from Peru, overstayed her visa but had applied for legal residency.

    I have to assume this guy was aware of this. So if you vote to have “illegals” deported, how is this not exactly what you voted for?

    They really don’t like having to think about things do they?

    I wonder if he told at all her he votes for people that want her gone.

    • @invertedspear@lemm.ee
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      I don’t think it ever did. It does qualify you for legal residency status, resident alien or “green card” as most people refer to it. I’m pretty sure that status can be voided if you did anything illegal along the way. For citizen status you still have to go through the process.

    • BigFig
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      323 days ago

      I am going through this process right now.

      Once we are married (very soon) she will apply for a change of status to CR1 Visa (Temporary Residency for a spouse of an American citizen)

      From that point you have 2 years to finalize application for a Green Card (permanent residency)

      Once she has her Green Card, so long as she isn’t a criminal breaking any laws (non immigration related, felony shit) then she is a legal, permanent, resident.

      You then have to maintain that Green Card status for a minimum of 3 YEARS to then apply for full or dual citizenship. (Though you apply 90 days before that 3 year mark arrives)

  • @index@sh.itjust.works
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    -623 days ago

    It’s easy to pick on this guy but pretty much the same goes for everyone: americans keep voting for red or blue and unless they are the billionares enriching themself over and over they always end up getting fucked

    • @SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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      323 days ago

      Still very committed to being uncommitted, even while other people are facing hardship. Will you still be uncommitted when you’re facing hardship from the MAGAs?

      • @index@sh.itjust.works
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        -123 days ago

        You are making the same mistake of this guy. Don’t wait the government to fuck up with one of your relatives to understand that the red and blue parties are the two faces of the same medal

    • @corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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      423 days ago

      americans keep voting for red or blue

      • It’s a binary choice, if we omit the Russian-backed shill
      • #BothSides aren’t the same
      • pick the option of the two that is better. Repeat as the candidates evolve

      I’m not sure whether these “#bothSides are terrible so let’s not vote” are unable to detect nuance, can’t read, can’t do math, intentionally disenfranchising people, actually thinking they’re crusaders, or kids in the basement hating everything because the science homework is due.

  • @Gammelfisch@lemmy.world
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    1123 days ago

    HA HA HA! The dipshits Bradley and Camila found out. The article indicates Camila was flown to a privately run detention center in fucking Louisiana, WTF, GITMO was closer. Are the fuckers at DOGE checking how much the shit is costing US taxpayers?

    • @xye@lemm.ee
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      523 days ago

      IMO, people think this way because they’re trying to do the right thing, but the nebulous others are not. Deporting those others would make it faster and more acceptable for themselves to be approved. Clearing the queue and getting a glow up, for a ridiculous analogy. Fear leads to irrational choices. Telling people they’ll be 1000% more patriotic if you vote for them is an evil but successful tactic pandering to this fear.

    • @smeenz@lemmy.nz
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      They’re voting for people who regularly avoid the consequences of their actions. They think that they’ll receive the same special treatment.

  • @cygnus@lemmy.ca
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    4424 days ago

    The more I see stories like this, the more I wonder if Americans can make it out of this hole they’ve dug. The average inhabitant seems… rather lacking, compared to other developed countries.

    • @rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works
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      3824 days ago

      I disagree. People are dumb. Pick a country and I’m sure I can find shitty takes reported in the news. Hell, look at Brexit

      • @stay_on_target@lemmy.world
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        2624 days ago

        Agreed. The thought that you’re above the con, you could not fall for a grift, is the greatest thing a con man could hope for in a target.

        • BigFig
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          323 days ago

          Go watch any advice from cult experts. The people who think themselves too smart to fall into a cult, are MORE likely to be tricked or convinced into one

      • @dan1101@lemm.ee
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        1024 days ago

        Exactly, the US government has made it this far on good luck and overall commitment to a mythical American ideal. All it took was a successful populist candidate and some class war propaganda to undo all that.

      • @cygnus@lemmy.ca
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        224 days ago

        Brexit was indeed a dumb move, but let’s be honest here, it’s nowhere near what’s happening in the US right now. I can’t think of anything comparable in a first-world country, at least not since WWII.

    • @phdepressed@sh.itjust.works
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      624 days ago

      People are dumb, especially when lied to 24/7.

      The average Russian probably still thinks that Ukraine is Nazis and that they are winning. The average Chinese doesn’t know about Tiananmen square students protest or the brutal suppression much less Uyghurs genocide. Name a country and there’s something along those lines ongoing or at least in recent history. The far-right in Europe is doing much like America was just 10-20y ago other places are already ahead into their authoritarian phase.