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.
I can forgive a lot of things in life, but someone over 30 (so of voting age during Trump’s first campaign and presidency) with an Arab-sounding name cheering for the guy whose Very First Act In Office was a blanket ban on visits from a lot of Muslim countries is a special kind of dumb.
It’s not even LeopardsAteMyFace territory. It’s, “This guy already said he hates my guts, so I am totally voting for him because this time it’s going to be different.”
His name sounds Persian, not Arab. Still resoundingly stupid for him to support trump though.
and a deportation order.
“Sandra” is an Arab-sounding name?
They are the Hafraouis. The man is Abdellatif Hafraoui. So, yes, they both have Arab-sounding names, one moreso than the other.
That sounds Persian, not Arab…
The point is that the person doing the voting was the white American wife named Sandra, not the immigrant as the parent commenter implied. The parent commenter’s statement…
…wasn’t accurate because she, the voter, wasn’t the one whose guts Trump hated (at least not more than he hates everybody).
The point is that they were both ardent Trump supporters.
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