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Sonia Rosa Sifore and other anti-Trump protesters gather in Federal Plaza to rally for a number of issues, including immigrant rights, the Israel-Hamas war, women’s reproductive rights, racial equality and others, on the day of President Trump’s Inauguration, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley) By Sofía Aguilar March 24, 2025 – 12:16 The consequences of President Donald Trump rolling back on immigration policies from former administrations continue to make headlines and repress immigrant rights. Since January, he has shut down the CBP One App , attempted to remove birthright citizenship for children who are born in the US to undocumented parents, and authorized Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to conduct raids major U.S. cities like New York, Phoenix, and Los Angeles in order to arrest and deport undocumented people, even near churches, schools, and hospitals. This week, he has authorized ICE to step up their efforts, detaining and arresting immigrants at checkpoints who are married or engaged to U.S. citizens, even if they have proof of legal residency. Regardless of where they are in the citizenship process, their immigrant status has made them a target. One couple Bradley Bartell and Camila Muñoz became the latest in a long line of casualties as a result of this new policy. When they were traveling home from their honeymoon in Puerto Rico to Wisconsin, Muñoz was questioned by an immigration agent at the airport. When she stated that she was Peruvian and not an American citizen, she was arrested and has since spent weeks in a detention center in Louisiana. She had overstayed her visa but had applied for a green card, paid her taxes annually, and was married to Bartell. Notably, he is a U.S. citizen who voted for Trump in the 2024 presidential election, the El Paso Times reported. “I knew they were cracking down,” Bartell said in a statement to El Paso Times . “I guess I didn’t know how it was going down.” David Rozas, an immigration attorney representing Muñoz, told the publication: “Anyone who isn’t a legal permanent resident or U.S. citizen is at risk – period.” Muñoz is one of several immigrant women who have been targeted by ICE in the past few months. According to USA Today , the agency has also detained a woman in her 50s who is married to a U.S. citizen and has lived in the U.S. for over 30 years; a woman in her 30s whose father and siblings are U.S. citizens and who immigrated to the U.S. under the DREAM Act with proof of valid permanent legal residency; a woman in her 30s who overstayed her visa in her early 20s but who is now engaged to a U.S. citizen; and a woman who is engaged to and has lived with a U.S. legal permanent resident for nine years. None of the women, including Muñoz, have criminal records and all were detained at airport checkpoints in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Stay connected! Subscribe now and get the latest on culture, empowerment, and more. SIGN ME UP! Este sitio está protegido por reCAPTCHA y Google Política de privacidad y Se aplican las Condiciones de servicio . Thank You! You are already subscribed to our newsletter According to U.S. immigration law, overstaying a visa is an administrative violation, not a criminal one, though it can prevent them from returning to the country for over a decade. It can be waived if they are married or related to a U.S. citizen. However, ICE now has the authority to detain immigrants regardless of the status of their citizenship or legal residency application, as well as quotas of detainments, arrests, detentions, and arrests that they need to meet annually. “If an individual is overstaying their visa, they are therefore an illegal immigrant residing in this country, and they are subject to deportation,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a January news conference. Bartell and Muñoz first met through mutual friends in 2022 and married after two years of dating. They’d just returned from their honeymoon in Puerto Rico when she was separated from her husband at the airport, despite the fact that she was in the process of applying for legal permanent residency. As a college student in Peru, she came to the U.S. as part of a work-study program but overstayed her student visa during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic when the borders were closed, flights were canceled, and she couldn’t get home. Weeks after she was detained at the airport, Bartell found her in a privately run detention center in Louisiana, where she’s been staying with 80 other women. The couple is currently fighting her detainment and has hired attorneys, though it’s hard to say if and when she’ll be released. In the meantime, Bartell has stated his doubts about his decision to vote for Trump, not realizing how far the president’s anti-immigration policies would go or how much he’d be personally affected. “If you are not a citizen of the United States, and you are going through an immigration process, your first thought needs to be: How can this process be weaponized against me?” Nora Ahmed, legal director of the ACLU of Louisiana, told El Paso Times . 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