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.
Okay, so now his political views are getting changed just because of fair enforcement of our laws? It’s not legal for her to be in the country. She’s imprisoned and awaiting deportation, and the law will likely be interpreted to prohibit her from attempting re-entry for a number of years.
I’m not seeing any issues here.
I don’t see why you are downvoted, he got exactly what he asked for.
I suppose it’s that you call it “fair enforcement of law”, which it is. The law is super strict and maybe not fair, but that’s what he wanted, and the law was upheld as is. She was not targeted unjustly or unfairly under the law. Thus it is literally fair enforcement of the law. It’s the law that sucks.
Girls gonna have to restart the process from scratch if she ever hopes to enter and obtain residency or citizenship.
This could be between 3 and 10 YEARS depending on the severity of the overstay…
That’s their fault then. We have clearly-written laws; and in places where they’re not clearly written, you can call your local ICE office or your immigration lawyer (because anyone who’s living abroad or trying to become a citizen should have an immigration lawyer on retainer), explain the situation before you’re in an illegal condition, and see what they can do. I know that visa extensions exist.