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.
33 Comments
stoy@lemmy.zip · 96 pts · 214d
So, what they are actually saying is that the government is "hurting the wrong people".
They wanted people hurt, just not not themselves.
desiccated_event@piefed.blahaj.zone · 12 pts · 214d
I was told by my grade 8 history teacher that, "The Government is not your friend, the Government is not your enemy, the Government is there to make sure there is a tomorrow." I don't know what it means, but it sure sounds good, eh?
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 213d
republicans ALWAYS ASSUME the opposite of what they are told. they assume hes kidding when hes is not.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 53 pts · 214d
Fucking idiots. Learn a goddamned thing.
Raiderkev@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 214d
Nice, not just Trump voters, but full blown chuds. I hope the husband gets sent to el Salvador with no due process
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com · 12 pts · 214d
I want to know what his shirt says. I can read down to the word "probably"
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 214d
Looks like it’s this one.
A real ‘fuck your feelings’ kinda guy
*chef’s kiss*
dogslayeggs@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 213d
"Then you probably have looked at the facts of the situation and came to a logical conclusion while also having empathy towards people who don't look like you."
Nah, it probably says something offensive.
SinningStromgald@lemmy.world · 45 pts · 214d
They'll vote Republican every time regardless.
AngryRedHerring@lemmy.world · 43 pts · 214d
“You said you were going after the worst of the worst, but-"
"No but. You people are the worst."
robocall@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 214d
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com · 16 pts · 214d
Leopard obesity epidemic
EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 214d
Lots of faces to eat lately.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 213d
they need to call the lions, and hyenas to join in.
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 214d
Trump voters are criminals at heart. ICE did their job.
atzanteol@sh.itjust.works · 25 pts · 214d
It was never about "illegals".
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 213d
If only there was some way for us to have told them prior to all this happening.
Alas...
osanna@thebrainbin.org · 4 pts · 213d
those dastardly brown people should think twice before they go out brown again
hanrahan@slrpnk.net · 23 pts · 214d
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/22/us-immigration-trump-administration
Blum0108@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 213d
Which was a surprise to not many people on either side. The left saw it coming and the right pretended they didn't.
Jaysyn@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 213d
That's a lie. People like you don't actually think, only react.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 13 pts · 213d
They assumed that MAGA would be going after the people they hate, because they spend so much of their time wallowing in that hate, that it's all they think about.
But hate is dangerous, it spreads, and gets out of control, and it doesn't care who it's victims are. Now its claiming those who supported it because the indiscriminate hate has reached them.
They unleashed it, now they have to deal with it.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 213d
Racist finds out that the racists she voted for are also fascists.
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD.
ChetManly@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 213d
HubertManne@piefed.social · 9 pts · 213d
I thought they would hurt other people! But then they hurt us. US! Not them. US! I mean I want people to suffer, sure. But not me. ME!!!!
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 213d
You supported Trump, IMO that IS criminal.
Ironfist79@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 213d
Sorry hon. He is a criminal in ICE's eyes.
osanna@thebrainbin.org · 8 pts · 213d
oh no! anyway…
Etterra@discuss.online · 7 pts · 213d
WhatSaid@lem.ugh.im · 5 pts · 214d
And they announced plans to adopt a pet leopard.
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 213d
Awww...FAFO. We tried to warn y'all about Stephen Miller and the MAGA mindset on immigrants: everyone's a criminal. It's not like they weren't openly saying this since day freaking one.
I'd say she would have learned her lesson but clearly she hasn't.
Professorozone@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 213d
I guess she figured all 15M of them were going to be criminals. LOL.
Fedizen@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 213d
Yeah I'm sure they needed enough funds to double the size of the US prison system in order to deal with just the worst of the worst of the worst? "Mass Deportation" meant only the 3% of immigrants that were violent criminals?
It must be a truly blissful life to be so unaware... "How dare the boot I was licking step on me!"