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.
Still don’t understand how some people, especially those so obsessed with law and order and paperworks, doesn’t file for citizenship as soon as eligible, and just lives decades without filing for citizenship?
This story warms my heart. It’s pretty rare that someone gets exactly what they voted for.
Can’t wait for the sequel where he gets deported and has his GoFundMe scam money stolen.
I always thought it was criminal to be this stupid, so does that count?
“I voted for a criminal who said he was gonna go after criminals. I don’t know what went wrong.”
Some day scholars will have figured it out. Until then a mystery it shall remain.
“We just want to be treated like people with rights,”
If there is one person without rights, then nobody has rights. But I’m not sure you’re smart enough to learn that lesson.
To quote Solomon Burke’s amazing song:
None of us are free if one of us is chained
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.
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.
Typical that they’d go to the GFM grift.
Bet somebody showed her project 2025 and she called them delusional
Almost 100% likelihood.
That’s a losing bet to take…only a maga would take that bet.
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.”
with an Arab-sounding name
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.
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…
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.”
…wasn’t accurate because she, the voter, wasn’t the one whose guts Trump hated (at least not more than he hates everybody).
Removed by mod
Turns out that most GOP voters are criminals or are married to criminals?
The pic is choice:
Sandra and Abdellatif were staunch supporters of President Donald Trump. They even flew to Las Vegas to attend a Trump rally in 2020.
Why are Americans this dumb?
Murdoch media, talk radio, Heritage Foundation, Citizens United, and Cambridge Analytica. All coming for you if it’s not already there. Right, UK? Germany, wassup.
Look up “the southern strategy”. They targeted poor rural areas for indoctrination, and it’s paying dividends two decades later.
Stupid is too kind of a word.
If he doesn’t like Trump then he probably
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.
Nah. These cultist fucks are brainwashed.
https://bsky.app/profile/papootx.bsky.social/post/3mfb7gojue222
Reality has a well known liberal bias. And as the saying goes, a leftist is just a liberal who has been mugged by the police.
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
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
Bluesky has a liberal bias…
Not wrong
These stupid assholes will never change their minds.
This dumb cunt and her husband will both immediately go back to supporting Trump tomorrow.
Boo — and I can’t stress this enough — fuckinghoo. You get what you voted for.
It sounds like from the article that he never finished his immigration paperwork…
This N.J. Trump voter’s husband was detained by ICE: ‘I thought they’d focus on criminals.’
Stupid is as stupid does
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/22/us-immigration-trump-administration
Worst of the worst? Most US immigrants targeted for deportation in 2025 had no criminal charges, documents reveal
Sandra voted for Trump three times
Don’t worry, once 2028 rolls around, she’ll vote for him a fourth time.
