Bradley Bartell's wife is being held after U.S. agents arrested her as they traveled home from their honeymoon.

Summary

Bradley Bartell, a Trump voter from Wisconsin, started a GoFundMe to raise $3,000 for his wife Camila Muñoz’s bond after ICE detained her.

Muñoz, a Peruvian citizen, overstayed her work-study visa due to the pandemic and was seeking legal residency as Bartell’s spouse. She was arrested returning from a honeymoon in Puerto Rico.

Bartell continues to maintain that he does not regret voting for Trump.

Since Trump’s return to office, ICE has arrested over 90,000 immigrants.

    • Embargo@lemm.ee
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      4 months ago

      Such a cringe line. The land of the free was declared over fifty years before slavery was abolished. America is a shithole.

      • Maeve@kbin.earth
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        4 months ago

        Yes. We’re going to have to set feelings aside long enough to think carefully.

        • Embargo@lemm.ee
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          4 months ago

          There’s a lot of thinking going on while the U.S. government strips the rights of Americans and endangers many lives globally.

          What will putting feelings aside achieve? In order for me to stop being angry at what America is doing, I would have to stop giving a fuck about the atrocities of deporting legal residents who protest or the attempted erasure of the queer community or the genocides they support etc, etc.

    • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      4 months ago

      I’m not so sure she did, though. Honestly being deported might be better for her than being stuck married to this jackhole, as sad as that is to say.

      • III@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 months ago

        I am waiting for the follow up story about her leaving him the moment she gets out.

  • char_stats@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    They thought Trump was gonna make them all so rich, now they’re begging for money and eggs. And it’s just the beginning.

    Stay in school.

    • pivot_root@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Sch… school? They’re dismantling the public institutions keeping education accessible. If they get their way, it’s going to be straight to the farm, factory, and then Republican ballot boxes 18 years later.

  • Helvetica@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Bartell, on voting for Trump despite his immigration policies: “He didn’t create the system, but he does have an opportunity to improve it. Hopefully, all this attention will bring to light how broken it is.”

    Sheer delusion. I got news for you chump, Trump doesn’t give a shit about fixing anything. He’s not going to help you. He doesn’t feel gratitude, he doesn’t understand ethics. He already told you he only needed your vote one more time, he got it and now you’re disposable.

    • breezeblock@lemm.eeEnglish
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      4 months ago

      He’s a really uninformed and unanalytical person. Exactly the kind of voter trump wants.

  • rslogix89@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    $3000? What do we look like were make of eggs… get fucked my guy. You voted for this. I would say suck an egg, but clearly you can’t afford it.

    • jabeez@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      4 months ago

      $3000? What do we look like were make of eggs

      oh man, glad I didn’t have mouthful of beverage…or eggs…when I read this, well done!

  • Thorry84@feddit.nl
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    4 months ago

    Americans doing a GoFundMe is always funny to me. Like you clearly understand if you pool together money, you can make a big impact. For example when little Timmy needs a big operation and can’t afford it, people can start a GoFundMe, everyone chips in a little bit of money and Timmy is covered. So if we scale that up a bit… NO, THAT’S COMMUNISM!

    • MetalMachine@feddit.nlEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Considering communism has a centrally planned economy this is not analogous at all. You’re thinking more in line with social programs which I do agree

    • Seleni@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      It’s racism. In America the answer is almost always racism.

      Basically, with a GoFundMe, or ‘churches taking care of the poor’, or whathaveyou, you can make sure your money goes only to the poor Good Christian white folks, and none of it gets used to help those icky brown folks. Unlike government programs which have to help everyone equally.

  • 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it
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    4 months ago

    Brad, this is what Trump does. You may succeed in raising that money, but someone else may not be so lucky. What would you say then?