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.

  • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    26
    ·
    3 days ago

    Aren’t these people guys with guns who fantasize about fighting tyranny? Well this is your fucking chance to shine, sweetheart!

  • Vespair@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    18
    ·
    edit-2
    3 days ago

    Damn, it’s almost enough to make you think every single Trump supporter is an ignorant idiot absolutely devoid of any concept of forethought.

  • Polderviking@feddit.nl
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    23
    ·
    edit-2
    3 days ago

    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.

  • TomMasz@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    317
    ·
    4 days ago

    You shouldn’t have to have it happen to you before you realize the impact it has on others, but that’s what we’re up against.

        • someguy3@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          47
          ·
          4 days ago

          I saw a Ted talk that talked about inability to entertain the hypothetical. Some people are simply unable to entertain the hypothetical "what if my wife is deported’, they can only recognize it when it becomes "my wife is being deported ".

          • uuldika@lemmy.ml
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            30
            ·
            4 days ago

            I’ve heard that some people have difficulty with hypotheticals in general. not just on political issues, like it’s a surprisingly common cognitive issue.

          • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            3
            arrow-down
            1
            ·
            edit-2
            3 days ago

            I think both (edit: lack of) Empathy and this inability are required.

            Inability to entertain the hypothetical is a failure in the pure logic reasoning side, quite independent of Empathy.

            So, even the purest of sociopaths (hence, no Empathy whatsoever) can reason that “this can turn around and bit me” and thus not do certain things against others purelly for the selfish reason of not wanting to risk it coming around and bitting them.

            Meanwhile those with Empathy will partly feel the emotions of others when observing them, and also when imagining “how does/will this make them feel”. They don’t tend to do things that hurt others because they themselves end up feeling some of the pain via their own Empathy.

            So people with high Empathy won’t even want to do things to hurt others because it feels bad, those with low or no Empathy but an ability to entertain the hypothetical won’t support certain kinds of things that will hurt large groups of “others” purelly because of the higher risk that they themselves might directly or indirectly end up worse off from it and only the ones combining low Empathy and that inability to entertain the hypothetical (or just being too stupid to even begin to understand the risks of those things) will actual support such broad attacks on “others”.

        • dryfter@lemm.ee
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          5
          ·
          4 days ago

          And they confuse the two and think they’re being empathetic. I’m not even sure they have sympathy anymore.

    • sowitzer@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      50
      ·
      4 days ago

      From the article I don’t get a sense he is at all questioning his vote. He feels his case is special and the government messed up. For him. She’s vetted, so it’s ok. The others deserve what they are getting.

      • Astra@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        59
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        4 days ago

        Yep. Brackets by me:

        [Him and his wife] have been thinking a lot about [his] vote for Trump.

        “I knew they were cracking down,” he said. “I guess I didn’t know how it was going down.”

        He imagined the administration would target people who snuck over the border and weren’t vetted

        But his wife, “they know who she is and where she came from,” he said. “They need to get the vetting done and not keep these people locked up. It doesn’t make any sense.”

        The dumbfuck doesn’t show any contrition at all, he just says oops I didn’t know. When this topic came up in the interview, he didn’t admit any regret or that he put himself (and his wife) in this position - he just says that the government is wrong to do this to him/his wife, and that they should go after other illegals instead. What a piece of shit.

        • peregrin5@lemm.ee
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          8
          ·
          3 days ago

          He’s probably just playing CoD while his wife shivers in a cell. His main grievance is that regular sandwiches aren’t arriving.

    • Vespair@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      3 days ago

      Honestly I think this is part of why conservatives like homeschooling so much; being in a close classroom environment teaches most people empathy as they quickly realize they are not the center of the teacher or anyone else’s universe.

      Conservatives want to deprive us the lesson of empathy.

    • BakerBagel@midwest.social
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      27
      ·
      4 days ago

      My sister in law’s family are all El Salvadorian refugees in Houston. Everyone under 50 are citizens now, but las abuelitas are not. They were all massive Trump supporters hoping that he will kick out “all the illegals” but are convinced that their grandparents wont be deported, and that they might be able to bring in more family.

      Juxtapose that to my family, where my English mom was naturalized 20 years ago after coming to the US on a green card. My family have always been pro-immigrarion since we would never dream of denying someone the same opportunity that we were given. We are all ao flabbergasted by it, but they all love Bukele as well, so i guess it shouldn’t be a surprise.

    • Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      7
      ·
      3 days ago

      Empathy is a marker of intelligence. I strongly doubt the education of conservatives. Hence the need for first-hand experience

    • kn0wmad1c@programming.dev
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      18
      ·
      4 days ago

      This is the problem endemic with the GOP voter mindset as a whole. They lack any shred of compassion and only care about themselves. The point of a society is shared burden. If you don’t want to love your neighbor, go live in the woods

    • ubergeek@lemmy.today
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      3 days ago

      Did you ever learn about say… The Jewish Holocaust? The Rwanandan Genocide? The Palestinian Genocide?

      Hate can, and does, go very deep, and is very easy to tap for those who look to do so, for their own ends.

  • Ronno@feddit.nl
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    34
    ·
    3 days ago

    This reads like the post Brexit articles. What do people expect to happen when they vote for something?

      • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        3 days ago

        “I’m a good person and this was only supposed to happen to bad people” - every Far-Right muppet when it turns out that the in-group is a lot smaller than they thought and they ain’t in it.

    • segabased@lemmy.zip
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      3 days ago

      People got too used to being able to cosplay as oppressed victims of the state despite decades of minor policy changes between Democrat or Republican administrations.

      All Americans got to enjoy conjuring any abstract worldview they wanted with the freedom of knowing they can say what they want whenever they want, never feel repression and just go home and watch tv. Maga got to pretend they were actively oppressed by the state which let’s them justify supporting real state oppression towards people they don’t like.

      I imagine a lot of maga dorks voted for this, expected performative moves but a mostly stable continuity of the American center. I don’t know if they’ll ever admit it but I bet they are going to regret this president keeping his promises when they are stripped of all of their rights and their safety nets. The time for hyperbolics and hysterics are over, fascism is here, they are going to get ground down with the rest.

    • fff45667@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      7
      ·
      3 days ago

      LOTS of immigrants are anti-immigrant once they think they’ve made it in safely. Makes them feel better about themselves I guess.

        • Tuukka R@sopuli.xyz
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          3 days ago

          At least over here in Finland there are several immigrants who are running for the communal elections through the anti-immigration party Perussuomalaiset. And they get voted by other immigrants. They are many. Remember, “many” does not mean the same as “most”.

    • ubergeek@lemmy.today
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      3 days ago

      She probably thought “I’m one of the good ones! I LOVE TRUMP! He will kick out those dirty Mexicanos!!!”

    • aceshigh@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      51
      ·
      4 days ago

      Right because my situation is special. I’m special and these laws don’t apply to me. @shithead I’ve voted for you 3 times, please help rectify this mistake.

    • Fredselfish@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      15
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      3 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
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        10
        ·
        edit-2
        3 days ago

        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
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          3 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.

  • BigFig@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    146
    arrow-down
    13
    ·
    edit-2
    4 days ago

    Hold the fuck up, she was already OVERSTAYING her Visa and these idiots thought it was a good idea to TRAVEL? Nah they both got what they fucking deserved. It doesn’t matter that you’re awaiting your residency application, you have already passed your exit date, why the fuck would you be traveling for your honeymoon

    Edit: I’m literally standing in the airport awaiting my fiance’s return from Mexico right now, this shit makes all the people who actually read their paperwork and follow the rules, look bad when they get lumped in with these idiots.

    • aramis87@fedia.io
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      47
      ·
      4 days ago

      Apparently she got stuck in the States when all the borders were closed during the pandemic, which seems pretty reasonable grounds for overstaying.

      But - she didn’t leave when the borders re-opened. She had fallen in love and at some point she filed paperwork to normalize her status - though they’re pretty coy about when they filled the papers, so I suspect that was done after the borders re-opened and she should have left.

      .

      I’m also going to point out what I haven’t seen in any of the comments so far which is that, with ICE being pressured to increase the number of deportations, they’re opting to go for low-hanging fruit. Unfortunately, that doesn’t mean raiding places that they’ve known for decades are hiring illegal immigrants, arresting and prosecuting and imprisoning the owners and managers.

      It does mean that they’re hanging out at at least some airports, and it sounds like they’re running passenger lists ahead of time (because they knew exactly who to approach). I mean, why to go the trouble of driving out to some farm or factory in the middle of nowhere, trying to chase down people who know the area better than you ever will, when you can sit at a comfy air-conditioned desk and only bother to get up when the computer lets you know that your “target” is trying to check in for their flight?

      • BigFig@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        11
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        4 days ago

        Agree completely, and to me when people like these two decide to do whatever they want because their love is “special”, it shows ICE that hey, this is way easier and they’ll focus more on these situations. This puts all the completely legal and above board immigrants in danger now.

    • AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      29
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      4 days ago

      Nobody deserves to be punished for arbitrary political boundaries.

      That being said, it’s satisfying to see the people supporting those boundaries get punished by them.

      • BigFig@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        15
        arrow-down
        5
        ·
        4 days ago

        I agree, but she and anyone else in her position have SIGNED paperwork in agreement with the terms that by X date you will leave the country. What the fuck else are we supposed to do if we just shrug and say oh well it’s just a date. These two were blatantly attempting to trounce the laws and just do whatever they wanted.

    • HowAbt2morrow@futurology.today
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      16
      arrow-down
      3
      ·
      4 days ago

      Exactly. Did my dude think he could Karen his way through Customs? Papers have to be in order with Biden or Trump, now it’s worse though because they detain your ass.

        • BakerBagel@midwest.social
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          12
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          4 days ago

          You still need to identify yourself to get on the plane. If your visa is flagged as expired, they are going to know and snatch you up

          • jballs@sh.itjust.works
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            7
            ·
            4 days ago

            Right, but I’m just saying this is no different from flying from Minneapolis to Denver. Someone saying “well of course ICE was gonna snatch you up, you set foot in an airport” is kind of crazy.

            • BakerBagel@midwest.social
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              8
              ·
              4 days ago

              I’m not defending ICE scooping up people. If you know that your visa is expired, you should assume that you are on their radar. Airlines verify all their passengers with TSA to ensure that no one is on a no fly list or q watchlist. Airports are secured locations where your identity has to be verified. Literally all it takes is for ICE to see you have signed up for a flight next Friday, and they can have an agent waiting for you at your gate.

            • BigFig@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              3
              arrow-down
              2
              ·
              edit-2
              4 days ago

              Not really, you are knowingly living here with an expired visa, you had ample opportunity to plan, reapply, change status, and many other options, they just…didn’t. So, as a non citizen with an expired visa they no longer have freedom of movement (as a visa grants you specifically, freedom of movement within the borders of the United States and it’s Territories)

        • treadful@lemmy.zip
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          4 days ago

          On their way home from a honeymoon, immigration agents detained her at a Puerto Rico airport.

          • jballs@sh.itjust.works
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            2
            ·
            4 days ago

            Oh are you saying I misread that? Like they honeymooned outside the US and were entering the US through Puerto Rico? That would make more sense.

              • jballs@sh.itjust.works
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                5
                ·
                4 days ago

                Just reread it, sounds like that’s not the case.

                But last month, on their way home to Wisconsin after honeymooning in Puerto Rico, an immigration agent pulled Muñoz aside in the airport.

    • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldM
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      8
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      3 days ago

      Being in an international relationship, I’m sure you understand how tricky and stressful some of these paperwork matters can be. Just deciding what type of visa to apply for when you are in a relationship can be taxing.

      You are right that for the majority of people, the bureaucracy works as long as you file things correctly. They should have done it right from the start. But there are a lot of personal situations that can complicate it.

      As an aside, it is mind boggling to me the number of immigrants who wholeheartedly support Trump, even with family ties that are endangered by his actions.

      • BigFig@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        edit-2
        3 days ago

        Warning, essay.

        Many many reasons for the immigrants who support him all of them bad reasons obviously.

        -White-Passing Hispanics, especially CDMX, Monterey within Mexico and outside, Argentina, Colombia, Brazil (obv. not the darker skinned Brazilians) etc. that can be seen by whites as “the good ones”, and by the Hispanics themselves. These people, the ones who make a point to embrace the “whiteness” of their bloodline, allowing them to identify more with their European colonizers rather than the darker skinned natives, or even Mestizos (mixed race, though at this point most people are decedents of decedents of decedents of the original Mestizos). Their tie to that European “whiteness” somehow makes them better than those darker than themselves.

        -Machismo culture being deeply ingrained in many families causing them to “admire” a “strong” man. Not a single macho man is actually macho (except for Macho Man) under Machismo, it is a warped idea of what constitutes macho that idolizes the men and puts them up front as the default lead of any situation especially family just because they are male.

        -There is unfortunately, a STRONG sense of “I got mine” or pulling the ladder up behind you among many many immigrants, Hispanic or otherwise. This goes along with the sense of “well we did it so it can’t be that hard”, they fail to realize that yes, it may have been easy for you but for others it is not.

        -Last I can think of, the kids and grand-kids of immigrants. Many did not get taught about the struggles of their ancestors, or were taught and don’t care, sometimes you just get a bad egg kids who doesn’t give a shit about his heritage. Sometimes this comes from their feeling like an “other” when living in an area with a Hispanic minority. This can cause them to seek out belonging and feel resentment to their ancestors and heritage for bringing them there, for making them into a minority and grow some unhealthy selfhate, and then falling in with like minds who also hate the “others” making them into “one of the good ones.” (ive types this term too many times today)

        • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          edit-2
          3 days ago

          Their tie to that European “whiteness” somehow makes them better than those darker than themselves.

          Yeah, this is the whole point of “racial” categories in USA: “hispanic”, “latino”, “white latino”, etc. It’s all about preserving bullshit race “science” and eurocenticism in service to white supremacy.

          • BigFig@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            3 days ago

            The fact that some people see “white” as the default and the rest as “ethnic” is ridiculous

    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      39
      arrow-down
      6
      ·
      edit-2
      4 days ago

      I have little sympathy for Madame. She travelled out of the country to Puerto Rico for her honeymoon, knowing she overstayed on her visa. Given what had happened in the weeks leading up to them leaving the US last week, she really should have not gotten on that plane.

      • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        37
        arrow-down
        5
        ·
        edit-2
        4 days ago

        The reason I sympathize with Madam is the same reason I sympathize with most migrants: they’re not doing it to hurt the country they migrate to, they’re trying to have a shot at a better life. I totally get what you’re saying but that doesn’t make her a bad person.

        Sir however is a dumbass: he did the very thing the guy he voted for said he would crack down on and now he’s bitching and moaning… Well ya know, faces, leopards and all that.

        • anomnom@sh.itjust.works
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          16
          arrow-down
          2
          ·
          4 days ago

          She should have left him when he supported a rapist criminal for President of the country she wishes to join. Face-eating voter by proxy.

          • Im_outta_here@lemm.ee
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            3 days ago

            Unfortunately, there’s a high chance her immigration application depends on her being married to him. My husband and I have been at his process for going on 8 years, and it entirely rests on me sponsoring him. If we were to separate, his whole case would get shut down, and he starts over with an even more expensive and complicated process. We aren’t going to divorce because we love each other, but it’s still something that his lawyer had to advise us about.

            • anomnom@sh.itjust.works
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              2
              ·
              3 days ago

              Good point I guess, but it’s clearly a no win situation in this case. I hope you guys make it, but probably your husband shouldn’t leave the country go anywhere near a border for a while.

              I suspect people like your husband might even be at risk after naturalization during this administration.

      • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        13
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        4 days ago

        The stupidest thing she did was marry someone who would vote that way. She should have left his ass the second he cast that ballot, if not before.

        • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          7
          arrow-down
          4
          ·
          4 days ago

          That may be true, but they have been rounding up legal immigrants at the various ports of entry for weeks. I didn’t see that the trip was to PR, but either way, they’ve rounded up several legal immigrants just here in San Ysidro. She knew she was no longer legally here, fucked around and found out.