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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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[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 14 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

the way the media talks about immigration and trumps policies are very specific and very corrosive. most of us here having this conversation understand what's really at stake because we think about and analyze these things, but american media intentionally lets people who don't know think they know what they don't.

let me explain.

when donald trump talks about criminal aliens in our country, he means anyone born on foreign soil, born to foreign parents, or with citizenship somewhere else who has committed a crime. a crime to him is any breach of law. and he uses the terms "illegals" and "aliens" to distance people from their own humanity. but the media will cover it as he's only interested in criminals. you know, like drug kingpins, traffickers, gun runners. our mass media misleads the populace. the reason they do this is doing so does numbers for them. when you have a for profit media apparatus, you will make more money if there is always an emergency. this way they can trick people like this guy into making their own emergency, and then they can package his tragedy and sell it to us.

everything is going according to plan

[–] tburkhol@lemmy.world 15 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

You can't promise to round up and deport 10 million "criminal, illegal immigrants" without implying that all of the ~10 million undocumented residents are criminal. Unless you've been listening to Ann Coulter and believe there are 50 million undocumented - 1 in every 6 people in the country.

[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 10 points 22 hours ago

These are the same morons that think Bezos isn’t rich enough to give all his workers raises; that ‘he would lose all his money!’

Math is not their strong suit.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 5 points 20 hours ago

i know that. you know that. but not enough people do. they don't understand scale or large numbers. they think if we increase minimum wage by $7, the price of a big mac will go up $7.

our education system is designed to make people susceptible to exploitation.

everything is going according to plan

[–] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

You have to remember that to THESE people, being undocumented in any way shape or firm IS illegal. Whether or not that makes you a criminal is entirely different and they definitely say yes.