Sandra Hafraoui, who identified as MAGA and voted for Trump three times, now says the president's immigration policy has "ruined our lives."

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/43460008

Abdellatif Hafraoui sits at a small dining table in the Bayonne apartment he shares with his wife, Sandra, sipping his morning coffee — a ritual unchanged over their 15 years of marriage.

Since August, however, that routine has been shadowed by months in ICE detention and the black ankle monitor now strapped around his leg.

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The arrest forced Sandra to reconsider assumptions she had long held about immigration enforcement. “To think we were MAGA!,” Sandra proclaimed. The couple even attended a Trump rally in Las Vegas in 2020.

Sandra voted for Trump three times, believing enforcement would focus on people with criminal records — not individuals like her husband.

Asked what she would say to him now, she paused. “You said you were going after the worst of the worst, but instead you ruined our life,” she said.

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Conservative Media: “Trump is arresting all the criminals. Here are some of the (AI generated) criminals Trump has recently arrested. Aren’t you glad these people are no longer in the United States?”

    Conservative Voters: “Wow, great job, I love this news”

    Actual ICE official: incoherent screaming at your husband

    Subset of Conservative Voters Experiencing This Personally: “This is not what the TV told me would happen”

    Now I guess we get to find out if the subset is big enough to shift the elections, despite CBS getting added to the pile of reactionary propaganda.

        • TryingSomethingNew@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          7·
          1 day ago

          I don’t know if you should read that much into it, other than that for once there are multiple viable Democrats in a primary. I personally wish Crockett and Talarico weren’t running against each other, so that they could focus on Cornyn/Paxton/Hunt instead , though to both parties’ credit they are not running negative campaigns.

          But yes, the local repubs are calling it an existential threat to Christ-fearin’ ‘muricans, and how if they get in power there will be Sharia law and cats and dogs living together, etc

          • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            23 hours ago

            I personally wish Crockett and Talarico weren’t running against each other, so that they could focus on Cornyn/Paxton/Hunt instead

            The GOP is having its own night of the long knives. I wouldn’t lose too much sleep.

            But yes, the local repubs are calling it an existential threat to Christ-fearin’ ‘muricans, and how if they get in power there will be Sharia law and cats and dogs living together, etc

            It’s a powerful message. Just ask NYC Mayor Andrew Cuomo

    • HazardousBanjo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      1 day ago

      These stupid assholes will never change their minds.

      This dumb cunt and her husband will both immediately go back to supporting Trump tomorrow.