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.

  • Optional@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    119·
    24 hours ago

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

    . . . Since his release, Abdellatif has been required to attend ICE check-ins and live under electronic monitoring. He cannot return to work.

    In addition to the $15,000 bond, the couple estimates they have spent about $50,000 in legal fees to date, draining savings built over decades. They have launched a GoFundMe [link removed because fuck that] to help cover ongoing costs.

    “We just want to be treated like people with rights,” Sandra said. “Not as problems to be managed.”

    TL;DR: Learned nothing, will continue to vote cult til they die.

    • ouRKaoS@lemmy.todayEnglish
      23·
      19 hours ago

      Oh, look! You had $65,000 lying around to put up a fight! You’re better off than a significant portion of the people in similar situations.

      You have negative amounts of my sympathy.