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.
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.
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
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.
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.
There’s literally been a genocide ongoing in Palestine for almost 1.5 years. Hegemonic support for this genocide is a direct cause of growing fascism.
Liberal blind spots are amazingly huge.
Frankly I don’t think of Israel as a first-world country, so that hadn’t crossed my mind.
… yet
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.
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
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.
Woops. Sucks to suck.
Stupid is a stupid does.
Let’s start arresting Trumpers (not just husbands, but farmers, restaraunt owners, hotel owners, factory owners, etc) for multiple counts of aiding and abetting and see if they still think supporting him is a good idea.
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.
Well that’s what decades of destroying education will do
There need to be some kind of actual education before it can be destroyed.
Like I believe one of your founding fathers Benjamin Franklin said: “Experience holds a dear school, but fools learn from no other”
He would have been pretty nonplussed by our current batch of fools who can’t even learn from experience.
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.
they just refuse to listen.
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.
I didn’t realize just how poorly we were viewed overseas
We are poorly viewed by intelligent beings here too.
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.
Guess you can’t take the murica out of an american
Haha, you think they learn.
FAFO
And I bet he would vote for Trump again. That’s how brain washed they are.
Well, that was stupid wasn’t it
Girl I hope you realize you are about to marry a racist that doesn’t see you as people. Run.
Sees her as his brown colonial conquest, or marrying “one of the good ones” because she gets his dick wet
You know if this hadn’t happened, if they ever got divorced and she wasn’t a resident or citizen yet then he’d be calling ice on her ass the next day.
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"First, they came for the pro-Palestinian activists, and my jimmies weren’t rustled.
“Then they came for the Peruvian newlyweds and my jimmies weren’t rustled.”
This is just the Hollywood modern reimagining of WW2 that no one wanted.
Headline reads like the voice over of a 90s comedy movie.
HAW HAW
I mean yeah, except for the fact that the wife is now ‘detained with ice’ which doesn’t sound like a good time
I mean she obviously married an idiot so…
Does marriage to a citizen no longer make you a citizen? Did I miss that part?
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.
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)
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You won, get over it
