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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26925868

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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[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Did you read the article? It says they had an immigration application currently under review. That isn’t the same thing.

[–] kbotc@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

ICE has been arresting people at green card interviews.

[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you overstay, you are required to leave the country to apply. Just because they filed some paperwork doesn't change that.

[–] Halosheep@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago

This is untrue. My wife overstayed her visa by a couple months by the time we applied for permanent residency. She was advised by a lawyer and immigration services themselves NOT to leave the country because her most recent entry was done legally and without the intent to stay for ever (student visa).