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.
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.