ICE's deportation actions signal that anyone who isn't a US citizen is 'at risk – period,' immigration attorney says.

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.

  • BigFig@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    17 hours ago

    he would flush the millions of illegals who voted for Biden in 2020 like rats. (I picked that analogy on purpose, he thinks they’re sub-human).

    And that is the Nazi (and other authoritarian, not even just right fascists) talking point. The painting of a people as “Vermin”, the villainization of a minority or even a majority or comparatively similar size group. The point is to gear your people to think deep down that the “others” are beneath them, beneath deserved respect, sub human scum that you shouldn’t be worried about what happens to them.