"I don't regret the vote," Bradley Bartell said after his wife was detained by ICE as they returned home from their honeymoon.

Summary

Bradley Bartell, a Trump voter, says he does not regret his choice despite his wife, Camila Muñoz, being detained by ICE after their honeymoon.

Muñoz, a Peruvian citizen seeking a green card, overstayed her visa due to the pandemic. Bartell criticized ICE’s inefficiency but still supports Trump, hoping he improves the system.

His story highlights Trump’s mass deportation policies, which have led to arrests of nonviolent migrants and even legal residents.

Muñoz remains in ICE custody as her case proceeds.

    • alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      6 days ago

      Or he just doesn’t really love her and maybe he already has his sights set on some new lady.

      I wouldn’t even rule out that he or a close family member might have been the one to call ICE.

      • Warl0k3@lemmy.world
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        6 days ago

        IDK, I think this is a great example of how insidious the republican propaganda truly is. Going by whats in the article, it seems like he really does love his wife. The issue seems to be that he’s fundamentally an idiot he really believes in the myth of Trump as the maverick beltway outsider who’s lack of government experience means he’s the only one able to clear up the injustices and inefficencies of our current government.

        Speaking with Newsweek, Bartell described the emotional toll of watching his wife being detained. “It’s all been a nightmare really, taking things as they come and moving forward,” he said. “We have an attorney. The system for getting people through seems to be very inefficient, so it is taking longer than it should.”

        Regarding Trump, Bartell said: “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.”

        Seriously, this is what they believe. MAGA voters aren’t the crazed immigrant-hating bible-spewing few that grab attention and make such a convenient person for us to hate, they’re average people who can generally identify the injustices of the system… but have been sold the idea that, somehow, trump is going to fix them. And not just fix them, fix them so the people who let them get this way will be punished for their willful nay intentional neglect and therefore geit their just comeuppance for all the cruelty they inflicted by being such jews greedy, lazy, people.

        … yeah, so this guy is a Grade-A imbecile, but hes been drinking a very cloying brand of kool-ade that presents the cruelty as anyone else’s fault besides the republicans.