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.

  • gnomesaiyan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    124·
    14 hours ago

    I honestly believe these idiots that voted for Trump somehow thought that they would be immune to his policies. He doesn’t give a fuck about you.

    • Seleni@lemmy.world
      471·
      13 hours ago

      I know it’s been getting a lot of mileage on Lemmy lately, but:

      Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

      • Wilholt’s Law

      He figured he was in the first group, and since conservatives tend to think women are property, he figured her being with him put her in that group too. Whoops.

      • newtraditionalists@kbin.melroy.org
        17·
        13 hours ago

        This is a really good read on these types of situations. He’s a white guy and he thought that was enough. that means the rules don’t apply to him. I think as we are trying to figure these people out we sometimes overcomplicate it and a lot of the times the reasons are really quite simple. Just like them.

        • Seleni@lemmy.world
          17·
          12 hours ago

          All conservatives want this law to be reality, and they all want to be in the first group. When you look at it in that light, all their supposedly contradictory actions make sense.

          It seems like most of the time the realization they come to is less ‘oh wow maybe this is bad actually’ and more ‘hey, you put me in the wrong group!’

        • segabased@lemmy.zip
          2·
          8 hours ago

          In general we give people who act stupid way too much credit, they’re actually just fucking stupid.

          Conversely, we’re way too comfortable letting politicians play stupid instead of calling them out for their malicious intentions. And if the politician truly is stupid (Trump) there are handlers behind them pulling the strings

    • Lucky_777@lemmy.world
      24·
      13 hours ago

      They thought by bending the knee to Trump, they would be exempt from his bullshit. You’re 100% right here. He doesn’t give a fuck about Americans, their families or the down troddened.

      Trump only cares about Trump.