He voted for Trump. Now his wife sits in an ICE detention center.

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: USA Today

Published 6:00 a.m. ET March 16, 2025 | Updated 10:44 a.m. ET March 16, 2025


Bradley Bartell and Camila Muñoz had a familiar small-town love story, before they collided with immigration politics. They met through mutual friends, had a first date at the local steakhouse, married after two years and were saving to buy a house and have kids. Muñoz was already caring for Bartell's now 12-year-old son as her own.

But last month, on their way home to Wisconsin after honeymooning in Puerto Rico, an immigration agent pulled Muñoz aside in the airport. "Are you an American citizen?" asked the agent. She answered no, she wasn't. She's from Peru. But she and her husband had taken the legal steps so that one day she might get U.S. citizenship.

Millions of Americans, including Bartell, had voted for President Donald Trump's promise to crack down on "criminal illegal immigrants." But eight weeks in, the mass deportation effort has rapidly expanded to include immigrants whose application for legal status in the country is under review. Even those married or engaged to U.S. citizens are being detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, USA TODAY has learned. In addition to Muñoz, USA TODAY has confirmed through attorneys, family members and documents that ICE has detained for weeks:

a woman in her 50s who has lived in the country more than 30 years and is married to a U.S. citizen;

a woman in her 30s with proof of valid permanent legal residency, whose father and siblings are U.S. citizens, and who first came to the U.S. as a teen;

a European woman in her 30s engaged to a U.S. citizen who overstayed her visa when she was 21;

a woman engaged to a U.S. legal permanent resident, with whom she has lived for nine years.

None of the women has a criminal record, according to a USA TODAY review of national law enforcement records. All were in an ongoing legal immigration process and felt comfortable enough boarding a domestic flight. Immigration agents swept each of them up at airport checkpoints in mid-February, in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/03/16/mass-deportation-ice-detains-non-criminals/82304354007/

[RandySF]

1. FAFO

[RandomNumbers]

2. Yes, but not all the victims did the FA part.

Personally I think the Dems should be more aligned with what Americans actually want with regards to immigration. Then maybe our candidates would win and continue to handle illegal immigration and excessive legal immigration* with reasonable and ethical policies. I am aware that Biden/Harris DID achieve some things to mitigate the immigration situation. But they failed at advertising and tried to please everybody with their positions.

* excessive legal immigration: see H-1B abuses, for example. I don't think we'll ever know - or some will never admit - how bad H-1B has fucked over this country and the goal of electing Democrats.

[Bengus81]

6. He's just another Trump voter who belived him to the core when he's a fucking liar

and has been his entire life. He played the FA part "they won't come for MY wife" card when pulling a lever for Trump last Nov. Now,he's right smack dab in the FO part.

You can add most farmers in the US and Republicans who are receiving Medicaid assistance or a family member and wondering NOW just how bad these cuts will be.

FUCK EM..........

[Aristus]

9. Voting for Trump constitutes Fucking Around.

It's the very definition.

[gab13by13]

3. a European woman in her 30s engaged to a U.S. citizen who overstayed her visa when she was 21;

Sounds like Elon Musk. Lock him up.

[GB_RN]

4. Eloon..

Was supposed to be here as a student, and didn’t bother to register for classes, in violation of his student visa. The similarities between the two situations were the first things I thought of when I read that section of the article. The fucker is definitely illegal. But…he has $$$.

[Pototan]

5. You voted for Trump

now you pay the consequences.

No sympathy here. Sorry.

[iemanja]

11. Right, let's support authoritarianism

Out of revenge.

[Pototan]

13. I voted for Harris

I voted against Authoritarianism. They voted for it. The difference is, I'm not at risk but supported to defend the rule of law and Democracy. They voted for Authoritarianism thinking it wouldn't affect them.

I will vote again in 2026 for my Democratic Congresswoman (Katherine Clark). Maybe the dumb motherfucker husband will join me by voting Democratic this time.

[travelingthrulife]

7. So there is hope ICE will arrest Melania?

[republianmushroom]

8. Guess the dude though that it would only apply to those "others" and

not him. Seeing that he is a good republican MAGArat. Live and lean, dud and stop whining. Your choices maybe you will think about your choices a little bit more than you have the next time.

[mackdaddy]

10. So elections have consequences?

You helped inflict the Shit Clown on all of us, so Seinfeld voice: 'That's a shame'.

[iemanja]

12. Therefore shredding US law is fine

With you?

[Pototan]

14. In a Democracy

when the other side controls the House, the Senate, the Presidency and the Supreme Court, it leaves the rest of us with the only recourse being to call the opposition bad names.

We can't do shit until we vote again, if there is another election. In the meantime, those of us who have been fighting for the past 5 elections (2016, 2018, 2020, 2022 and 2024) against morons like the husband in this story should be allowed to get pleasure out of him and others like him, being fucked by the outcome of the elections they contributed to.

FAFO.